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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of November 4–8, 2019. November 4, 2019: The IRS posted a new Large Business and International active compliance campaign on...By: McDermott Will & Emery

Philadelphia is about to become the first city in the country to approve legislation that would create a portable bank of paid time off for domestic workers. And it could create the model for a similar blueprint that would aid the gig economy...By: Fisher Phillips

In Neurvana Med., LLC v. Balt USA, LLC, No. 2019-0034-KSJM, 2019 Del. Ch. LEXIS 995 (Ch. Sep. 18, 2019), the Court of Chancery declined to exercise personal jurisdiction over Balt International, S.A.S. (“Balt International”), a company headquartered...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

A new law was passed in Pennsylvania prohibiting employment of unauthorized employees. Starting in October 2020, the construction industry employers are mandatorily required to verify the Social Security numbers of the employees....By: Norris McLaughlin, P.A.

As we reported just a few weeks ago, Congress has begun to gather information and consider the “future of work,” with considerable emphasis on the role of the gig economy. Although this emergency economy is growing rapidly, tension is also growing...By: Fisher Phillips

Those who don’t eat, sleep, and breathe developments in payroll card law (and what an empty life that must be) would be forgiven if they lost track of what’s going on in New York. The New York Department of Labor (NYDOL) issued payroll card...By: Womble Bond Dickinson

Scammers are always seeking new ways to target victims for Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams, where they leverage email to try to convince you to give them credentials, send them confidential information like W2s, send them money by changing...By: Stoel Rives - Global Privacy & Security Blog®

Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini examined a case in which a group of shareholders alleged the company and two individual defendants breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders, and an investment bank aided and abetted the alleged...By: Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

On October 29, 2019, Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard of the Delaware Court of Chancery granted partial summary judgment to a common unitholder of Regency Energy Partners LP (“Regency”) challenging a merger with an affiliate of Regency’s general...By: Shearman & Sterling LLP

This chart sets forth some of the annually adjusted dollar limits that impact employee benefits, as published by the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Please see full Chart...By: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck