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The IRS has just issued the cost of living adjustments for various retirement plan limitations that will take effect either on January 1, 2020, or for the 2020 plan year. These 2020 plan limitations are important to both plan sponsors, plan...By: Dentons

On November 4, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would give employers more flexibility in the way they calculate overtime pay for workers with inconsistent schedules that result in...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

I. Terminations - In Spain, as in “2001: A space odyssey”, man beats the machine - On September 23, a Social Court in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria tackled one of the greatest fears of workers today: Will employees whose functions are mechanical and...By: Dentons

The Nevada Labor Commissioner issued two advisory opinions concerning Senate Bill (SB) 312, which, effective January 1, 2020, requires private employers with 50 or more employees in Nevada to provide paid leave that employees can use for any reason....By: Littler

If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you know that this is my absolute favorite time of the year. No, it’s not Thanksgiving (though we should give thanks as I’ll explain in a second)....By: Shipman & Goodwin LLP

As we wrote here recently, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill known as AB5, which is designed to make it more difficult for companies to treat workers as independent contractors. The new law, which goes into effect on January 1, 2020,...By: Epstein Becker & Green

When a litigant makes a statement to one court, and later makes a contradictory statement to another court, what must the other party show to prove the litigant intended to make a mockery of the judicial system? The Eleventh Circuit examined that...By: Carlton Fields

The Internal Revenue Service released the cost-of-living adjusted qualified retirement plan limitations effective January 1, 2020. For ease of reference and comparison to prior years, we have placed the adjusted limitations in the table below....By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Already a tough place for employers, New Jersey may be about to get even tougher. The Garden State is one of only a handful of states widely using the so-called ABC test, which makes it harder for businesses to classify workers as independent...By: Littler

The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor has issued guidance that collectively-bargained leave policies cannot supersede the requirements of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), even if the bargained-for policies are more...By: Franczek P.C.