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Senior Living Center Refused Employee's Request for an Accommodation, Resulting in Her Termination, Federal Agency Charges - DALLAS - Assisted Living Concepts, LLC d/b/a Enlivant and North Brook Place, a national owner and operator of senior living...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) last week added considerable teeth to its powers through draft regulations implementing key provisions of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA), which...By: Shearman & Sterling LLP

Meet the New Boss. The U.S. Senate confirmed Eugene Scalia as the new secretary of labor on September 26, 2019. Scalia, who served as solicitor of labor in the George W. Bush administration, is expected to continue apace with the U.S. Department of...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division adopted final regulations revising the salary requirements for employers that claim the executive, administrative, or professional exemptions from the minimum wage and overtime...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Rehabilitation Facility Fired Employee Because of Her Need for Additional Leave to Recover From Cesarean Section, Agency Charges - DALLAS - Dallas-based Greenhouse Outpatient Center and its parent company, American Addiction Centers, violated...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

California recently enacted an emergency amendment (SB 778) to California Government Code Section 12950.1, extending the deadline for California employers to comply with the state’s new anti-harassment training mandate. Under Section 12950.1, the...By: Epstein Becker & Green

New US Labor Department regulation, to take effect January 1, 2020, raises the minimum base salary for exempt employees to US$35,568. Key Points: The new regulation: ..Increases the minimum base salary for exempt employees under the Fair Labor...By: Latham & Watkins LLP

California has some of the most extensive employee protections in the country. California law requires paid leave, paid rest breaks and permits employees to sue for wrongful termination in violation of public policy....By: Lathrop Gage

The U.S. Department of State has released the October 2019 Visa Bulletin, the first for fiscal year 2020. As anticipated, many of the final action dates have rebounded after retrogressing in August and have returned to dates similar to those seen in...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its final rule to update the salary thresholds necessary to qualify as exempt employees: www.dol.gov/whd/overtime2019. The new ruling will take effect on January 1, 2020....By: Pessin Katz Law, P.A.