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As employers have noticed, there is a growing wave of COBRA notice class action lawsuits filed against large employers with at least six cases being filed in 2019 alone. In each of the cases, the plaintiffs allege that the COBRA election notice...By: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

The market favors training that is interactive, scenario-based and topical. People also want compliance programs to have shorter, more frequent communication. You can have all of this with Peak Compliance Training: their technology allows you to pull...By: Thomas Fox

Waterloo has enacted Iowa’s first “Ban the Box” regulation and has also enacted rules as to how criminal records may be used even after the application process.   The “box” is a question on the application about prior criminal convictions.  Some...By: Davis Brown Law Firm

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: • FBI warned BOA not to purchase Constellation. (FT) • Guy who wrote the book on Latin American crime charged with money laundering. (WSJ) • Trump advertises his hotel on Twitter. (MarketWatch) • SEC...By: Thomas Fox

A few years ago, I did a post on whether a digital signature in a construction contract was valid. Given the regularity by which parties now communicate by email, it is certainly a subject worth revisiting....By: Burr & Forman

Very often, tax consequences determine how successful the sale of a business ultimately is. Owners often focus only on top line price, while structure and tax treatment can make a significant impact on how much of the purchase price the owner...By: Murtha Cullina

In recent years, North Carolina courts have become increasingly resistant to enforcing noncompetition and non-solicitation restrictions they view as insufficiently narrowed to the specific competitive threat presented by the departed employee....By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

If it ain't broke – removing extended absence trigger a failure to make a reasonable adjustment - Removing an extended sickness absence trigger point from an employee with ME/ chronic fatigue syndrome was a failure to make a reasonable adjustment,...By: Hogan Lovells

On Election Day, Sussex County, New Jersey, voters overwhelmingly supported a ballot referendum on whether the county should cooperate with federal immigration officials. The ballot measure was in response to New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S....By: Norris McLaughlin, P.A.

On Thursday, November 15, 2019, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”) held the fourth of five stakeholder meetings to discuss the implementation of the revised Workplace Examination standard for metal/non-metal mines, 30 C.F.R. §§...By: Fisher Phillips