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Let’s face it – your dealership’s employee handbook is likely out of date, even if you just updated it in the past few years. Labor and employment laws continue to undergo significant changes at an astonishing rate. As a result, it is important to...By: Fisher Phillips

In 2012, Congress passed and President Obama signed the “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act,” a transportation reauthorization bill referred to as “MAP-21.”...By: Littler

In Spring of this year, I read an article about a “cool” and “savvy” 43-year-old high school teacher in Massachusetts who developed a “Gen Z Dictionary” that attempts to define the colloquial terms that his students used throughout the school year....By: FordHarrison

The Internal Revenue Code imposes dollar limitations on various compensation, benefit and contribution levels under qualified retirement plans. Today, the Internal Revenue Service announced the 2020 cost-of-living adjustments affecting dollar...By: Holland & Hart - The Benefits Dial

DETROIT, MI-Family Dollar Stores of Michigan, LLC, a retailer with discount stores throughout Michigan, will pay $25,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal disability-discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

On October 29, 2019, a panel of Seventh Circuit Appellate Court Judges held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) does not cover alleged discrimination based on future impairments. Shell v. Burlington N. Santa Fe Ry. Co., No. 19-1030, 2019...By: Snell & Wilmer

Whistleblowing can and should be an essential tool for organisations who want to deliver effective conduct and control practices across their businesses. However, many firms are still failing to maximise the opportunities that embedding an effective...By: Dentons

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 5 into law on Sept. 18, 2019, codifying the strict "ABC" test for employee versus independent contractor classification adopted by the California Supreme Court in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v....By: Holland & Knight LLP

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it will once again use the Dates for Filing chart from the November 2019 Visa Bulletin to determine which applicants may file their adjustment of status applications. These dates...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has held that a unit selected for organizing by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) – one including approximately 180 jet mechanics at Boeing's aircraft production plant in...By: Holland & Knight LLP