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In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: 1. Will Brazil move past its corrupt administration? (FT) 2. What if you ID audit partners? (WSJ) 3. US Bank pays $4MM to settle sanctions allegations. (WSJ) 4. Good work if you can get it. (Washington...By: Thomas Fox

In recent weeks, the National Labor Relations Board has issued several employer-friendly decisions, and its September 13 decision in Arlington Metals Corp., 368 NLRB No. 74 (2019) was no exception. In Arlington Metals, the Board considered......By: Proskauer - Labor Relations

In the good old days of participant-directed 401(k) plans, a good chunk of financial advisors did very little work for the plans that they advised. Many of them sat back, collected their trail or asset-based fee, and maybe saw the client once a year....By: Ary Rosenbaum

Employers and retail giants alike are increasingly inserting mental health into the broader, public conversation around individual health care and employee benefits. Various U.S. employers are rolling out employee-based benefit programs to improve...By: Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

A federal appeals court decided last week that ride-share drivers engaging in interstate commerce while performing work for Uber should not be subject to the company’s arbitration agreement because of a recent Supreme Court ruling broadly...By: Fisher Phillips

In our increasingly integrated world, companies must coordinate their compliance efforts throughout many European jurisdictions at once. This is made easier when they can view the bigger picture across Europe. In relation to this, our European...By: Dentons

On September 9, 2019, the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the IRS) issued proposed section 382 regulations (REG-125710-18) (the “Proposed Regulations”) reversing certain previously taxpayer-favorable positions...By: Shearman & Sterling LLP

Pointing to an increasing trend of private equity firms acquiring physician staffing companies and private emergency transportation companies contracting with hospitals, a key congressional committee announced a bipartisan investigation this week...By: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Yesterday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 5 (“AB5”), controversial legislation which will have a substantial impact on California employers when it goes into effect on January 1, 2020. ...By: Payne & Fears

The Construction industry is fortunate to have numerous stakeholders committed to safety ranging from Craft Unions and groups such as CPWR to Industry Associations such as the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America. Included in that group...By: Fisher Phillips