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The first year of Governor Gavin Newsom’s term produced many significant pieces of employment legislation in California, including most prominently one law limiting the use of independent contractors for most businesses and another aimed at outlawing...By: Jones Day

As an ERISA attorney, I get asked to review new retirement plan tools and plan provider marketing tools. If the product is crap or a complete copy of what is already out there, I’m not going to recommend it....By: Ary Rosenbaum

The Situation: Declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization, and with more than 17,000 cases already confirmed worldwide, preliminary estimates indicate that the latest coronavirus outbreak may not peak until late April 2020....By: Jones Day

Volvo’s owner, Li Shufu, is mulling over a move to combine the carmaker with his publicly traded Geely Automobile Holdings—a play that would take Volvo public and “unify the bulk of billionaire Li’s growing stable of automotive brands.” It would also...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

On Thursday, February 6, 2020, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order upholding Philadelphia’s Salary History Ordinance (the Ordinance). Philadelphia was an early adopter of legislation prohibiting inquiries into an applicant’s salary...By: White and Williams LLP

Go PRO. As the Buzz has been predicting for quite a while, on February 6, 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019 (PRO Act). Last May, we covered the drastic changes the bill would make to...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

The U.S. Department of Labor is still working to finalize the withdrawal of the 80/20 rule, which had forced employers to pay the full minimum wage to employees who spend more than 20 percent of their time on non-tipped work. But recently, federal...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

On Thursday, January 30, members from Verrill's Employment & Labor group, as well as some from the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation group, conducted a full-day seminar full of employment law related topics that would prepare HR...By: Verrill

The UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has issued technical guidance setting out a detailed explanation of the law relating to harassment and sexual harassment, and offering employers practical recommendations for preventing and...By: Morgan Lewis

In Daneman v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42881 (C.D. Cal. March 11, 2019), the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California held that an insurer's statement in a claim denial letter that it would reconsider the...By: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP