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As a plan sponsor, you have a fiduciary duty to hire competent plan providers to handle your 401(k) plan. So as part of that duty, it’s important to identify who these providers are, how you hired them, and why....By: Ary Rosenbaum

There are many notable east coast-west coast rivalries. In sports (Celtics versus Lakers basketball), in leisure (Atlantic versus Pacific beaches), or in food (Shake Shack versus In-N-Out Burger), to name a few. With respect to restrictive covenants,...By: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The Department of Homeland Security recently moved closer to launching its new electronic registration system for allocating the H-1B cap, which is the annual limit on certain types of new H-1B cases. DHS often receives more cases than it may accept...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

On August 30, 2019, Governor Newsom signed into law SB 778, which delays by one year the new harassment training requirement imposed by last year’s SB 1343.  As a result, employers with five or more employees or independent contractors will have...By: Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

In a 3-1 representation case, the National Labor Relations Board recently continued its roll-back on Obama-era precedents, invalidating a 180-member “micro-unit” of Boeing mechanics. The Board held in The Boeing Company and International Association...By: Arent Fox

An important deadline approaches for those employers required to file the EEO-1 survey – which generally includes employers with at least 100 employees. In April 2019, a federal court ordered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

Massachusetts employers should be making their final preparations for the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) program in advance of the Oct. 1, 2019, effective date for payroll deductions. This Holland & Knight alert provides a...By: Holland & Knight LLP

Ogletree Deakins’ Traditional Labor Relations Practice Group is pleased to announce the publication of the summer 2019 issue of the Practical NLRB Advisor. This edition examines the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new framework for...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Companies' Owner Subjected a Female Employee to Sexual Harassment, Then Fired Her for Complaining, Federal Agency Charges - SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Desert Truss, Inc., an Arizona-based construction supplies manufacturer, and Buttrum Construction,...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

In a short published opinion filed September 13, 2019, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 4) affirmed the trial court’s judgment denying a historic preservation group’s mandate petition seeking to compel preparation of an EIR by the California...By: Miller Starr Regalia