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Last week’s wild economic ride combined with China’s currency-devaluing response (and, arguably, months more of trade-war-driven global uncertainty) led to the worst day on Wall Street since last December, with the Dow plummeting more than 700 points...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

Governor Mike DeWine recently signed Senate Bill (S.B.) 57 into law, paving the way for the hemp industry to become one of Ohio’s agricultural yields. Industrial hemp comes from cannabis plants that contain no more than 0.3 percent...By: Bricker & Eckler LLP

Thomas J. Szymanski Effective January 1, 2020, private employers in New Jersey are prohibited from asking job applicants about their salary, wage, and benefit history and are not permitted to make hiring decisions based on that information. Employers...By: Blank Rome LLP

The Employee Benefits Practice is pleased to present the Employee Benefits Developments Newsletter for the month of July 2019. Please see full Publication below for more information....By: Hodgson Russ LLP

Key Points- California law provides enhanced whistleblower protection to employees who work in healthcare facilities, protecting their right to speak privately with state regulators....By: Husch Blackwell LLP

Existing Department of Labor (DOL) regulations exempt a welfare plan that provides only apprenticeship or training benefits from the reporting (e.g., Form 5500) and disclosure requirements of Title I of ERISA if the employer files a notice with the...By: Hodgson Russ LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: CBD is “thriving” in the current regulatory environment, but is it doing so illegally? As former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb opined last week, “the CBD craze is getting out of hand. The...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Section 409A was added to the Tax Code in 2004 to, among other things, limit the ability of companies and their executives to optimize tax outcomes by controlling the timing of deferred compensation payments. Although this article focuses on...By: Blank Rome LLP

Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, bringing you up to spee?d on the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of occupational pensions. Please see full publication below for more information....By: Allen & Overy LLP

A Bank of America employee sued a Bank of America Pension Plan for breach of fiduciary duty because a benefit estimate was incorrect. The estimate included years of service for which the employee had previously received a distribution of that related...By: Hodgson Russ LLP