1. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has adopted a new standard for determining whether contractual language acts as a waiver of a union’s right to bargain over a specific issue. MV Transportation, Inc., 368 NLRB No. 66 (Sept. 10, 2019). The...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.
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This month’s Friday Five covers recent cases addressing class certification, pre-existing condition limitations, consideration of extrinsic evidence on a motion to dismiss a purported ERISA action, fee awards, and what level of factual detail is...By: Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
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This Employment Law This Week® Monthly Rundown discusses the most important developments for employers heading into October 2019. The episode includes: 1. DOL Issues Final Overtime Rule On September 24, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a...By: Epstein Becker & Green
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The IRS recently released final regulations making a number of changes to the rules applicable to hardship distributions from 401(k) and 403(b) plans. Concluding our three-part series on the final regulations, this blog entry will focus on the...By: Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive
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Although multi-jurisdictional compliance is a challenge in relation to every aspect of employment law, the structure of employment contracts and the enforcement of global policies require particularly careful consideration. The need to coordinate...By: McDermott Will & Emery
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A federal judge recently dismissed a lawsuit alleging that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration wrongfully delayed the compliance deadline for its own recordkeeping reporting regulation. The court said that the agency properly rolled...By: Fisher Phillips
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Prompt payment arrived for Ontario's construction industry October 1, 2019. The final stage of implementation of the changes introduced the Construction Lien Amendment Act, 2017, came into force on October 1, 2019. Subject to a grandfathering period...By: Bennett Jones LLP
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On September 7, 2019, the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated September 6, 2019, No. 743 “On additional measures for the regulation of labor relations in the labor market” (hereinafter referred to as “Resolution...By: Dentons
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On September 6, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California preliminarily approved a settlement in Harvey v. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. The significance of the result is two-fold. First, substantively, it is a...By: Epstein Becker & Green
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Following in the wake of the #MeToo movement, two new bills adopted by the California Legislature will expand the temporal scope of state-law harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and sexual assault claims....By: Hogan Lovells
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