On January 2, 2020, China’s national antitrust authority, the State Administration for Market Regulation ("SAMR"), released a draft of amendments ("Draft Amendment") to the Anti-Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China ("AML") to solicit public...By: Dentons
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Where is Everybody? Perhaps due to the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, it’s been a relatively quiet week in the labor and employment arena in Washington, D.C. President Trump and U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia (along with other...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,
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Two years after the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the most significant tax reform enacted in a generation, taxpayers continue to encounter substantial uncertainty arising from interpretations of new statutory provisions, reinforcing...By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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On January 24, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disclosed its 2019 sexual harassment statistics. After a significant increase in sexual harassment charges in FY 2018, the EEOC reports a 1.2% decrease last year. Despite the...By: Horton Law PLLC
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In late 2019, Pennsylvania defected from the traditional use of the fluctuating workweek method used to calculate overtime rates for employees working fluctuating hours. Instead, in Chevalier v. General Nutrition Centers, Inc., the Supreme Court of...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,
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Last week, I covered some of the basics to think about as the coronavirus continues to spread. Jon Hyman has a post today about whether the ADA might apply to the situation. But in Connecticut, there’s another case that employers ought to be...By: Shipman & Goodwin LLP
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The term “joint employer” is often one of grave concern to employers. When, for example, Company A hires Company B, an outside cleaning service, to clean Company A’s offices, both companies may be held by a court or administrative agency to be a...By: White and Williams LLP
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The 2020 appropriations act, which was signed into law by the President on December 20, 2019, contains a mix of good and bad news for employer-sponsored health plans....By: Dickinson Wright
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The general election in the United Kingdom took place on December 12, 2019, and resulted in a landslide majority of 80 seats for Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party. The principal consequence of the election is that, three years after the...By: Locke Lord LLP
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The Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals reversed enforcement of an employment arbitration agreement on January 23, 2020, holding that the agreement was both substantively and procedurally unconscionable because it required the parties to submit to...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.
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