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The #Metoo movement has shed substantial light upon issues surrounding workplace sexual harassment, especially in the context of superiors harassing their subordinates. But what happens when employees are harassed at work by someone who is not a...By: Jaburg Wilk

Restaurant Tolerated a Sexually Hostile Work Environment, Federal Agency Charged - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Pei Wei Asian Diner, LLC, doing business as Pei Wei Fresh Kitchen in Little Rock, will pay $300,000 to former employees as part of a settlement...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Today is Time to Talk Day focusing on ending the stigma of mental ill-health in the workplace. Mental ill-health costs UK employers up to £42 billion annually due to poor productivity, sickness absence and staff turnover....By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Effective February 29, 2020, Maryland will become the 14th state to “ban the box”—i.e., prohibit private employers from asking job applicants to disclose any criminal records or criminal accusations, in this case, prior to the first in-person...By: Epstein Becker & Green

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has established a process that requires all retirement plan sponsor who have adopted a pre-approved retirement plan to restate their plans once every six years to reflect changes in the Internal Revenue Code and IRS...By: Ary Rosenbaum

Technology continued to be among the most active subsectors for US M&A in 2019, with 1,138 deals announced worth a total of US$206 billion. This represents a marginal decrease of 3 percent in volume and 7 percent in value compared to 2018 activity....By: White & Case LLP

As a follow up to its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued in April 2019, the US Department of Labor (DOL) announced on January 12, 2020, the issuance of a Final Rule to revise and clarify the standard for joint employment status under the Fair Labor...By: McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Minimum salary thresholds for overtime pay have been a lightning rod for controversy both nationally and in Pennsylvania for the last five years....By: Barley Snyder

In Shah v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25695 (S.D. Ohio Feb. 19, 2019), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio dismissed a plaintiff insured's bad faith and punitive damages claims where there was a genuine...By: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Construction projects are rarely completed without delays or adjustments made to the project schedule. To avoid liability when scheduling disputes arise, parties must prove that they are not responsible for a delay to the project schedule....By: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP