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This arbitration decision may result in a "whack." For more than 30 years, the California Supreme Court has been playing a game of arbitration "Whack-A-Mole" with the U.S. Supreme Court....By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Just before the Labor Day holiday, the Mine Safety and Health Administration published a long-expected silica request for information (RFI) on possible further regulatory action to address silica (most often found as quartz) in workplaces. From past...By: Husch Blackwell LLP

With so many questions surrounding artificial intelligence’s effect on the workplace and workforce, one wonders whether future Labor Day celebrations will take on new meaning....By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

If you are an employer required to file an EEO-1 report, your life became a lot more difficult this year. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced that in addition to filing the usual EEO-1 data by May 31, 2019, EEO-1...By: Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

The Nevada State Legislature’s 80th regular session made history with the first female majority in the nation. This session focused on issues such as healthcare, energy, construction, and employment. ...By: Holland & Hart LLP

The Illinois Contractor Prompt Payment Act, 815 ILCS 603/1, et seq. (the “Act”) was first enacted in 2007 and designed to safeguard contractors and subcontractors on private projects by providing a mechanism to expedite payments for work performed....By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Perhaps the most frequently violated provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act is that law’s requirement that non-discretionary bonuses be included in non-exempt employees’ regular rate of pay used for purposes of calculating overtime pay. On August...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) issued its Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) Determination to the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) on Aug. 22, 2019, concluding that the region needs to...By: Holland & Knight LLP

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sided with Texas in its challenge to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) guidance for employers on the use of criminal records in hiring....By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Effective August 20, 2019, Illinois law provides that a maximum of 10 percent retainage may be withheld from payments under private construction contracts and, after the contract is one-half complete, retainage must be reduced to 5 percent and kept...By: Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP