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El pasado 07 de octubre de 2019, el Ministerio de Hacienda y Crédito Público de Colombia expidió el Decreto 1808 de 2019, "por el cual se reglamentan los artículos 55, 126-1, 126-4, 206, 206-1, 235-2, 383, 387 y 388 del Estatuto Tributario y se...By: Holland & Knight LLP

A federal district court in Ohio recently attempted to shed some light on when internal communications between an ERISA plan administrator and its in-house counsel are discoverable and when they are protected by the attorney-client privilege....By: Carlton Fields

There has been an important milestone in the search for more legal certainty in gun-jumping cases: On September 26, 2019, Advocate General (AG) Tanchev issued his opinion in the Marine Harvest case (C-10/18 P) and recommended that the European Court...By: Dentons

Earlier this year, we summarized proposed Treasury regulations and the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, which made changes to the rules governing hardship distributions from 401(k) and 403(b) plans....By: Laner Muchin, Ltd.

Pennsylvania House Bill 1170, known as the Construction Industry Employee Verification Act (the Act) was recently passed which will require all construction-industry employers, both public and private, to use E-Verify to determine the eligibility of...By: Cozen O'Connor

On October 10, 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 51. While styled as a bill pertaining to enforcement of employment discrimination under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), the bill sweeps far more broadly. Specifically,...By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

In response to long-running campaigns and public pressure, the Australian Government has amended the Corporations Act 2001 to significantly increase the protections available to corporate whistleblowers. This now provides for criminal offences and...By: FTI Consulting

Labor Condition Applications must be filed under the new DOL’S FLAG System - As part of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“USDOL”) technology modernization initiative, the FLAG System (Foreign Labor Application Gateway) was developed to replace the...By: Dickinson Wright

This week, a California Court of Appeal concluded in a class action case that the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex decision applies retroactively....By: BakerHostetler

On September 19, 2019, the Second Circuit issued a key pro-arbitration decision, which also decided issues of first impression about the Dodd-Frank Act (“DFA”) and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (“SOX”). Daly v. Citigroup Inc. et al. Plaintiff brought...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.