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In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: 1. CFO’s say new lease accounting rules are tough. (WSJ) 2. Mexico President to fight corruption. (APNews) 3. New Saudi anticorruption chief to focus on public servant corruption. (Reuters) 4. Savage v....By: Thomas Fox

Q: Can one employee donate PTO to another? A: Yes, but the government doesn’t make kindness easy. There are IRS rules which directly impact PTO donation plans....By: Davis Brown Law Firm

On Tuesday, August 27, 2019, President Trump formally nominated Eugene Scalia to serve as Secretary of the United States Department of Labor. The Department of Labor is responsible for enforcing federal laws governing the employment relationship,...By: Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers,

In today’s episode I visit with Rebecca Rehm, Compliance Business Partner Manager at Olympus Corporation of the Americas and Matt Doherty, Lead Compliance Officer, Operations - Legal & Compliance at Mercer and visit about their talk, Drip, Drip,...By: Thomas Fox

Dittman v. UPMC, 196 A.3d 1036 (Pa. 2018).  The Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that employers have a legal duty to use reasonable care to safeguard sensitive personal information of their employees when the employer chooses to store such...By: Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

In today’s show, Amy Kadomatsu joins host Tom Fox to share how her company makes compliance simple for their clients. Amy is the Chief Operating Officer at ComplySci, a provider of regulatory technology for financial and professional services...By: Thomas Fox

On August 29, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) refused to extend the National Labor Relations Act (the “Act”) to create a new standalone violation under Section 8(a)(1). In Velox Express, Inc., 368 NLRB No. 61 (2019), the Board...By: Benesch

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has instructed employers to continue using the current version of the Form I-9 beyond the form’s August 31, 2019, expiration date. The current I-9 employment eligibility verification form has an...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Some interesting links we found across the web this week: 4 Tips for Managing Organizational Change - Business leaders often push for institutional change as a way to differentiate themselves from competitors. However, according a McKinsey study,...By: WilmerHale

The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) issued its Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) Determination to the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) on Aug. 22, 2019, concluding that the region needs to...By: Holland & Knight LLP