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In recent years, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has taken a much stronger interest in the national security ramifications of sensitive data falling into the hands of foreign adversaries, including the sensitive...By: Arent Fox

This Employment Law This Week® Monthly Rundown discusses the most important developments for employers heading into September 2019. The episode includes: 1. DOJ Appeals Ruling on Pay Data Collection There has been more pushback around EEO-1 federal...By: Epstein Becker & Green

With immigration enforcement in the news, some employers may be wondering what responsibilities they have related to their retirement plans, if an employer discovers that an employee lacks documentation authorizing the employee to work in the United...By: Dickinson Wright

By September 30, 2019, employers with 100 or more employees are required to submit certain pay data for 2017 and 2018 (called the Component 2 EEO-1 survey) to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Employers required to submit EEO-1 data should...By: BakerHostetler

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sided with Texas in its challenge to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) guidance for employers on the use of criminal records in hiring....By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Effective August 20, 2019, Illinois law provides that a maximum of 10 percent retainage may be withheld from payments under private construction contracts and, after the contract is one-half complete, retainage must be reduced to 5 percent and kept...By: Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced an award to an overseas whistleblower, with the $500,000 payout bringing the total amount awarded under the program to roughly $385 million....By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Nobody wants to think about the risk of active shooters — yet all the time, we do just that.  You can see the results on Google Trends. Online searches for "active shooter" hovered at a low level for many years, until they started creeping upward in...By: NAVEX Global

FHA recently announced the issuance of its long-anticipated final rule allowing Project Approval for Single-Family Condominiums (Final Rule), effective October 15, 2019, which FHA estimates could result in a significant increase in the number of...By: Weiner Brodsky Kider PC

The Background: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("the SEC") has announced that it may no longer review no-action letter requests relating to shareholder proposals submitted to companies under Rule 14a-8. The SEC has repeatedly fine-tuned...By: Jones Day