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On July 15, 2019, President Trump signed an Executive Order requiring regulations implementing the Buy American Act, 41 U.S.C. §§ 8301-8305, to be changed. While President Trump has previously issued two other policy-based “Buy American” Executive...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The era of #MeToo has caused employers to hyper-focus on harassment claims. They have fine-tuned their policies, investigated claims more carefully, and acted swiftly and sometimes even in a draconian fashion upon finding any level of harassment. In...By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

In PJR Construction of N.J. v. Valley Forge Insurance Company, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 127973 (D.N.J. July 31, 2019) (PJR Construction), a New Jersey federal court held that the “j.(5)” “Ongoing Operations Exclusion” applied to bar coverage for...By: White and Williams LLP

In Gainesville Mechanical, Inc. v. Air Data, Inc., --- S.E.2d ---- (June 19, 2019), the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed an arbitration award of modified total cost damages under a theory of cardinal change. Subcontractor Gainesville Mechanical...By: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Yet again, the end of the year is rapidly approaching! To avoid costly penalties that can arise from inadvertent errors in the year-end crush, plan sponsors should begin talking with their service providers now about what must be done before December...By: Poyner Spruill LLP

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is expected to sign into law the City Council’s recently passed Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance (the “Ordinance”). The Ordinance, which includes predictable scheduling provisions, will dramatically affect workweek...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The pharmaceutical, medical and biotech sector was number one by value, followed by technology, media and telecoms (TMT). TMT led by volume, followed by industrial and chemicals....By: White & Case LLP

Q: What do New York employers need to know about the recent amendment to the state’s pay equity law? A: In November 2015, New York became one of the first jurisdictions to pass a pay equity law that was more extensive than the federal equal pay...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA") was signed into law on June 28, 2018 and will take effect on January 1, 2020. The enforcement date - the first date on which the Attorney General may bring an enforcement action under the CCPA - is...By: Hudson Cook, LLP

This edition of Employment Flash looks at developments in labor and employment law, including a Supreme Court ruling that Title VII’s charge-filing requirement is nonjurisdictional and new state legislation in New York, Illinois and Washington that...By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP