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Cal/OSHA has just sent a reminder to employers to post their 2019 Annual Work-Related Illness and Injury Summaries. The summaries should be posted from February 1 through April 30 of each year....By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published a new webpage that links to resources on the agency’s site about workplace safety and health issues raised by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak....By: Nexsen Pruet, PLLC

Employers are struggling to determine how to respond to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, which, while originating in China, has swiftly turned into a perceived international crisis, upending financial markets, and prompting government...By: Littler

1. Help employees manage their individual privacy - Encourage employees to update their individual account privacy settings by visiting Update Your Privacy Settings on staysafeonline.org....By: Association of Certified E-Discovery

Size-of-transaction threshold under Hart-Scott-Rodino Act will increase to $94 million. On February 27, 2020, revised thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR) will take effect. The thresholds determine whether...By: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

The SECURE Act: What It Is And What It Is NOT - As part of a large year-end piece of legislation, the provisions known as the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Security Act (the “SECURE Act”) were enacted into law. The SECURE Act represents...By: Sullivan & Worcester

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has announced the annual revisions to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (“HSR Act”) thresholds, which will become effective on February 27, 2020. The revised thresholds will apply to any merger or...By: Bracewell LLP

For the past 7 years, fee disclosure has certainly helped you as a plan sponsor to finally understand the true cost of plan administration. That’s important because you have a fiduciary duty to only pay reasonable plan expense....By: Ary Rosenbaum

News that multiple cases of the newly-identified 2019 Novel Coronavirus have reached the United States have prompted employers to think about employee safety and ways to address disease prevention in the workplace. Although, according to the...By: Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

On January 23, 2020, the Federal Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a scathing decision that has garnered much attention. (Baez-Sanchez v. Barr, No. 19-1642 (7th Cir. 2020). It was not the merits of the underlying immigration case that...By: Harris Beach PLLC