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The California wildfire smoke regulation, an emergency regulation that took effect on July 30, 2019, is scheduled to become permanent on January 28, 2020. In the wake of the wildfires that have emerged throughout California, employers may want to...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

One hotly debated aspect of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) has been the so-called “Cadillac Tax” on high-cost health benefits, currently slated to take effect in 2022.  The Cadillac Tax is a 40% excise tax on the amount of employer-sponsored health...By: Shipman & Goodwin LLP

This summer brought typical thunderstorms, but it also brought a shower of new and changed requirements for construction activities as part of the recently renewed regulation for the General VPDES Permit for Discharges of Stormwater from Construction...By: Williams Mullen

For decades, federal wage and hour regulations have required that non-discretionary bonuses paid to employees be included in the recipients’ “regular rate” for purposes of calculating their overtime premiums.  In other words, if an employee earns a...By: McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

When seeking to enforce a restrictive covenant, whether a noncompete or a nonsolicit, the standard play-book calls for an aggrieved party to file suit and seek a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to preclude the defendant from...By: Burns & Levinson LLP

As we have previously reported, the IRS has made significant changes in the past few years to the way retirement plan sponsors ensure their documents comply with the Code. In 2017, the IRS confirmed that it would not issue determination letters for...By: Hodgson Russ LLP

On October 24, 2019, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Protecting American Jobs Act. The bill, cosponsored by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), Rand Paul (R-KY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Marco Rubio (R-FL), would significantly...By: Epstein Becker & Green

Effective November 18, 2019, amendments to the New York State Human Rights Law will provide enhanced protections to employees who are victims of domestic violence. In particular, unless an employee’s absence would create an “undue hardship,” New York...By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

The Tennessee Secretary of the Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued an October 24th proposed Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Lhoist North America of Tennessee, Inc. (“LNATI”) for alleged violations of an air permit. See...By: Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,

Today our employer focused legislative update zeroes in on “no rehire” provisions in settlement agreements, expansion of benefits to employees who donate organs, and care for a family member......By: Lewitt Hackman