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On August 6, 2019, the President issued an Executive Order imposing new sanctions against the government of Venezuela. This sweeping executive action comes after several rounds of escalating U.S. sanctions against the Venezuelan government in...By: Holland & Hart LLP

Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision in Cordúa Restaurants, Inc., that permits employers to create and enforce arbitration agreements with collective waivers in direct response to Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)...By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

A trustee in charge of administering a trust has many duties. A trustee appointed pursuant to a deed of trust, however, is different.  The duties of a deed of trust trustee are exceptionally narrow. A recent opinion from California’s Fourth...By: Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Virtual teams are becoming the norm for many corporate departments. According to SHRM’s 2017 Employee Benefits Report, more than 60% of companies offered telecommuting options. Today, that number is even higher. While much has been written about the...By: Major, Lindsey & Africa

Real estate developers and construction professionals have until mid-September to supply the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection with comments on a proposed permit for stormwater discharges....By: Barley Snyder

In recent months, we have had several situations where clients were assessed back wages for overtime relating to misclassification of managerial employees. Under 29 C.F.R. §541.104, employees eligible for the executive exemption to the overtime...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

A no-deal Brexit is now a very real possibility, and the UK government has announced that freedom of movement of EU citizens and their family members will come to an end immediately on 31 October 2019 should the United Kingdom leave the European...By: Morgan Lewis

Welcome to CEQA News You Can Use, a quarterly production of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP’s Natural Resources lawyers. This publication provides quick, useful bites of CEQA news, which we hope can be a resource to your real-time business...By: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

The area of prevailing wage law, construction wage-hour law, is a niche within a niche and a very complicated area of wage hour law. I am proud to say I have defended more than one hundred employers in these cases, both the federal Davis Bacon Act...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

The patchwork of paid leave laws around the country is getting increasingly more intricate as local governments adopt mandatory paid time off laws. This week, Bernalillo County, New Mexico added its patch adopting the first paid time off ordinance in...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.