California Employment News: Professional and Administrative Pay Exemptions
Podcast: California Employment News - Professional and Administrative Pay Exemptions
Podcast: California Employment News - The Executive Pay Exemption
Podcast: California Employment News - The Basics of Pay Exemptions
What Happens When the California Privacy Rights Act Employment Data Exemption Expires?
Employer Vaccine Mandates and Exemptions
State Law Privacy Video Series | Healthcare Entities and Health Data
State Law Privacy Video Series | Employee Exemptions
Podcast: The Briefing from the IP Law Blog - The Right to Repair and More New Exemptions
The Briefing from the IP Law Blog – DMCA: The Right to Repair and More new Exemptions
#WorkforceWednesday: New AB5 Exemptions, EEOC COVID-19 Updates, Joint-Employer Rule Partially Struck Down - Employment Law This Week®
When Dr. Strangelove Met Jimmy Hoffa
The CCPA for the Land Title Industry: Service Providers and Sale of Data Under the CCPA
[WEBINAR] Exploring the CPRA’s Investigatory Privilege
Ropes & Gray’s PEP Talk: General Solicitation by Private Equity Funds Under 506(c)
III-44- A Little Help From The DOL
[WEBINAR] Update on the California Environmental Quality Act: What’s New for 2018
I-18- DC Update on Joint Employer and OT Issues, and Part 1 of an Expert Interview on Pay Equity Audits
Employment Law This Week: Break Pay, Misclassification of Franchisees, California Computer Professional Exemption, Non-Compete Payment
Employment Law This Week: Defend Trade Secrets Act, Final Overtime Rule, Leave for Disabled Workers, OT Exemption Case
Employers have been required since August 20, 2023, when the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a notice of proposed rulemaking, to increase the minimum salary amount required to be paid to qualify for what is known as...more
California’s FAST Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act (FAST Recovery Act) was repealed on September 28, 2023, when Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) No. 1228....more
On January 4, 2023, the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 255 (the “Act”) with amendments, setting the stage for New Hampshire to become the latest state with a comprehensive privacy law....more
As of June 25, 2023, the Oregon House and Senate have signed Senate Bill 619 (the “Act”), which previously passed in the House 54-0. The Act now moves to the Oregon Governor’s desk for signature (and is set to become law as...more
The 88th Regular Session (2023) of the Texas Legislature approved HB 2071 (the "Bill"), which revises the way public facility corporations ("PFCs") can be utilized to own and operate affordable housing. Affordable housing is...more
As we move into the summer months, state comprehensive privacy law developments continue to steadily emerge. Most notably, in the weeks since our last update, the Texas legislature passed the Texas Data Privacy and Security...more
On April 20, 2022, Connecticut’s Senate passed S.B. 6, an Act concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring. The comprehensive privacy bill will now move to the Connecticut House, where it has the potential to become...more
The Illinois General Assembly recently approved House of Representatives Amendment 1 to Senate Bill (SB) 672, which would significantly reform noncompete and nonsolicitation law in Illinois. The bill will now go to Governor...more
On June 7, 2021, the Colorado House of Representatives passed the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), a comprehensive privacy law similar to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as well...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) currently exempts from its provisions certain information collected by a business about a natural person in the course of the person acting as a job applicant, employee,...more
On February 10, 2020, bipartisan cosponsors in the Wisconsin State Assembly introduced a trio of bills targeting the use of personal data information and modeled after the requirements of the European General Data Protection...more
The Office of the Governor of California recently announced that Gov. Gavin Newsom and California legislative leaders approved a cap of 5 percent plus inflation per year on rent increases statewide for the next 10 years. The...more
While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and its potential amendments are still a top concern for businesses, other states are showing that they will not be left behind when it comes to enhanced privacy legislation....more
House Bill 1557 proposes to exempt from the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) security plans related to medical marijuana facilities. The sponsor of the bill is Representative Douglas House (North Little Rock)....more
New Rules, Proposed Rules, Guidance and Alerts – SEC STAFF GUIDANCE AND ALERTS – OCIE Publishes Risk Alert on Compliance Issues Relating to Best Execution – On July 11, 2018, the Office of Compliance Inspections and...more
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday, July 10, expanding and increasing the powers of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The bill is called the Foreign Investment Risk...more
This week, there were reports that the Trump Administration would use emergency powers to restrict Chinese investment in the United States. On Wednesday, the White House backed away from that position after the House of...more
On September 12, 2017, the Senate passed the Encouraging Employee Ownership Act of 2017 (H.R. 1343) which directs the SEC to revise Rule 701 of the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") to increase the threshold that...more
On Tuesday, June 27, the Illinois legislature passed HB 3449, the “Geolocation Privacy Protection Act.” If signed by Governor Bruce Rauner (R), the bill would prohibit a “private entity” from collecting, using, storing or...more
On Monday, the House of Representatives passed the Creating Financial Prosperity for Businesses and Investors Act (H.R. 6427) (the “Act”) by a vote of 398 to 2. The Act is actually a compilation of six measures that were...more
Congress is poised to eliminate the exemption in the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act) for investment companies located in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other U.S. possessions. The 1940 Act governs...more
On May 23, 2016, the House passed H.R. 4139, the Fostering Innovation Act, by voice vote. The bill had passed the House Financial Services Committee on March 2, 2016....more
“Obamacare, but for retirement plans” is one way to describe recent state initiatives to establish automatic enrollment into individual retirement accounts (IRAs). One big difference, of course, is that the Affordable Care...more
A bill (H.R. 1675) seeking to increase the information disclosure threshold under SEC Rule 701 passed the U.S. House of Representatives on February 3 by a vote of 265 to 159. Rule 701 exempts from registration issuer sales or...more
On September 24-25, Miami-Dade County held a P3 Institute entitled “The P3 Pipeline: A Forum for the Private Sector.” Among the topics discussed at the Institute was a measure currently before the Florida Legislature that, if...more