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Welcome to the fall edition of the BakerHostetler Quarterly New York Employment Law Newsletter. We are pleased to share our analysis of some key employment trends, in-depth discussions regarding recent developments and what to expect looking forward....By: BakerHostetler

Soft Deadline for Wage/Hour Data Submission? September 30, 2019, was the deadline for employers to submit EEO-1 Component 2 wage and hour data for 2017 and 2018. Or was it?...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Case Law Developments - Place of supply for VAT purposes - The recent case of American Express Services Europe Limited (AESEL) v HMRC is a useful reminder of the well-established two-stage approach to determining the correct recipient of a supply...By: Proskauer Rose LLP

The new regulations proposed in September under Section 382(h) regarding built-in-gain raise several international tax issues that companies planning for post-acquisition integration of loss corporations should be aware of. For a U.S. corporation...By: Fenwick & West LLP

Employees who transition genders may ask their employer and co-workers to begin addressing them with names and pronouns associated with that different gender. On September 17, a federal district court in Maryland (which, along with North Carolina and...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

On September 18, 2019, California governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a contentious piece of legislation—AB5—that could potentially reclassify millions of independent contractors as employees and dramatically reshape the future of independent...By: Openforce

We recently reported that on June 11, 2019, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an opinion vacating the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s (“MSHA”) 2018 rule (“2018 Amendment”) entitled...By: Fisher Phillips

Does a corporate director of a vendor corporation owe independent fiduciary duties to a purchasing corporation in the context of an asset purchase? In Manson Insulation Products Ltd. v Crossroads C & I Distributors, 2019 ABQB 684 (Manson), the Court...By: Dentons

According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the best way for an employer to avoid 401(k) plan mistakes is to conduct an annual checkup of the plan document and plan operations. The IRS provides a 401(k) plan checklist on its website for this...By: Thompson Coburn LLP

The Situation: The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division ("DOJ") has provided details on the unprecedented use of arbitration to resolve its challenge to the proposed acquisition of Aleris Corporation by Novelis Inc. The...By: Jones Day