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Navajo Transitional Energy Company, a wholly owned limited liability company of the Navajo Nation, is about to close a big deal that will substantially impact Wyoming, and potentially the country as a whole....By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) has informed all employers to continue using the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, released on July 17, 2017, notwithstanding the August 31, 2019, expiration date listed on that form....By: Norris McLaughlin, P.A.

On August 8, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor – Wage and Hour Division (collectively the "DOL") issued Opinion Letter FMLA2019-2-A, which interpreted the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) to include providing intermittent family leave for...By: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

As Labor Day and "back to school" beckon, what new laws and trends are we seeing in California? Here are my picks: NATURAL HAIR MUST BE ALLOWED. A new California statute says natural hair styles must be allowed. So take a squint at your dress and...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Every construction project, from contract negotiation through the payment of the final pay application, suffers from the same conundrum born out of every parties' desire for certainty and finality. That problem is the issue of the exchange of lien...By: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

The #MeToo movement has brought public awareness to claims concerning pay disparity based on gender. As more and more women bring equal pay claims and enter into hefty settlements, the general public begins to internalize the message that women are...By: Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

In Seyfarth’s fourth installment in its 2019 Trade Secrets Webinar Series, Seyfarth attorneys Kristine Argentine, Eric Barton, and Katelyn Miller focused on the enforcement of non-competes and how the difficulty of enforcement of these restrictive...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

On August 8, 2019, the Department of Labor issued an Opinion Letter explaining that employees may take leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) to attend a meeting discussing their child’s Individualized Education Plan (“IEP”). The...By: Payne & Fears

In the National Labor Relations Board's ("NLRB" or "Board") recent Walmart decision, a majority of the NLRB reaffirmed that a union's intermittent strike scheme is unprotected where the short duration strikes are part of a strategy to achieve the...By: Burr & Forman

Since 2001, an employer presented with evidence that at least 50 percent of its unionized bargaining unit no longer wanted to be represented by the union could anticipatorily withdraw recognition from that union. The union, however, could rebut that...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.