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Combatting the New Insider Threat: North Korean IT Workers Posing as Remote Employees

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The New York Department of Financial Services issued a cybersecurity advisory on November 1, 2024, regarding a growing threat posed by North Korean operatives seeking remote IT roles at U.S. companies. These operatives secure...more

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Retirement Plan Amendments and 2024 Year-End Action Items

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Our Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group reminds plan sponsors to get ready for 2024 IRS year-end amendments and offers year-end action items....more

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When Disaster Strikes: Issues and Relief for Health Benefit Plans

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In the wake of a federally declared disaster, employees may face issues with their benefit plans. Our Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group discusses what plan administrators should know and the agency guidance...more

DLA Piper

Qualified Retirement Plans Agenda

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Our qualified retirement plans agenda outlines current legislative, litigation, and other developments concerning tax-qualified retirement plans. Sponsors are encouraged to be aware of these issues and assess whether any...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Washington Employers Face Minimum Wage and Salary Threshold Increases

Effective January 1, 2025, Washington’s state minimum wage will increase to $16.66 per hour, a 2.35% increase over 2024. In addition to complying with the state’s minimum wage requirements, Washington employers also need to...more

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Federal Court Ruling in Texas Challenges OSHA’s Administrative Law Judge System

In May 2023, in the wake of a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States that U.S. district courts have jurisdiction to consider structural constitutional claims against administrative agencies, we predicted that the...more

Perkins Coie

Illinois Minimum Wage Increases on January 1, 2025

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On January 1, 2025, the Illinois Minimum Wage will rise to $15 per hour for individuals who are 18 years and older. New employees in the first 90 days of employment over the age of 18 may be paid up to 50 cents less per...more

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Mile-High Times for OSHA in Colorado: Denver and Englewood Area Offices Focus on Cannabis Facilities

Although cannabis remains illegal under federal law, that has not prevented the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from enforcing the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) against cannabis-related...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Ninth Circuit Panel Rejects EO 14026 Contractor Minimum Wage

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WHAT: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a split decision in Nebraska v. Su holding that Executive Order (EO) 14026, commonly known as the $15 contractor minimum wage, exceeded the President’s authority...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

Planning for the Future: Lessons from President-elect Donald Trump’s First Term on Immigration and What Employers Can Do to...

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As employers of foreign national talent prepare for the return of President-elect Donald Trump to the White House in 2025, understanding the key immigration takeaways from his first presidency is more important than ever....more

Maynard Nexsen

Forecasting Effects on Employment Law of a New Administration in the White House 

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Given the President’s control over the Executive Branch, the outcome of the 2024 election will surely bring acute change in the direction of federal labor law. Below are a number of forecasts and projections in light of...more

Chartwell Law

Implications of Recent Spike in Inflation on Workers’ Compensation Claims

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Overview of Medical Inflation and Workers’ Compensation - Inflation began to spike in late 2021 and has continued to rise at a moderate to high rate through 2024. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of...more

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Paid Prenatal Personal Leave Goes Into Effect for Pregnant New Yorkers in 2025

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In April 2024, the New York State Legislature passed Governor Hochul’s 2025 Executive Budget that expands the statewide Paid Family Leave (PFL) policy to provide 20 hours of paid prenatal personal leave per 52-week period for...more

Venable LLP

Trump's Second Term: What's Ahead for Eight Key Sectors?

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During a campaign season that saw an incumbent president bow out of his own re-election bid and assassination attempts against his challenger, substantive policy debates were sometimes obscured by the drama. ...more

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DOL Issues Updated Guidance on Employers’ Use of AI in the Workplace

Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published updated guidance detailing the principles and practices employers can implement to maximize the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace while safeguarding...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

FLSA Salary Thresholds - Is this 2016 All Over Again? (Definitely. Maybe.)

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What once was old is new again. For those living in caves or remote parts of the world without internet access: there was an election in the United States this week. We will have a new President. Well, not exactly “new.”...more

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Automatic Enrollment mandate will lead to a whole host of problems

I was against Automatic Enrollment before I was for it. When it finally became part of the Internal Revenue Code, plan sponsors got liability protection through using the QDIA. While I like that plan sponsors under SECURE 2.0...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

2021 EEO-1 Reports of Federal Contractors to be Released by OFCCP Absent Employer Action

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The University of Utah and a non-profit organization named "As You Sow" have issued FOIA requests to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) for the 2021 Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Reports filed by federal...more

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New York Amends Constitution to Expand Equal Protection

On November 6, 2024, New Yorkers across the state voted “yes” on the Equal Rights Amendment, commonly known as Proposition 1. The newly passed Equal Rights Amendment expands New Yorkers’ constitutional civil rights and...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Week in Weed: November 2024 # 2

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. We’ve got one story this week, so let’s just get to it. Cannabis had a bad night on November 5....more

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Oregon’s New Warehouse Employee Protections Take Effect on January 1, 2025

On March 27, 2024, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed into law House Bill (HB) 4127, which will impose notice and recordkeeping requirements on covered employers of certain warehouse workers when using quotas to measure worker...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

FLSA Requires Pay for Commuting Time to and From Overnight Worksite

The Fair Labor Standards Act contains complex rules for determining whether non-exempt employee travel is compensable working time. In most circumstances, time spent commuting to and from work is not considered FLSA working...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Five Questions to Evaluate Whether a Business and Human Rights or Broader Sustainability Law is “Good”

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The imminent decision by the European Union to postpone for a year its complex and multi‑faceted sustainability law, the Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), is something of a surprise. The EUDR requires, among other things, due...more

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The CFPB in 2025: What to Expect Following the Election

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2024 has been an eventful year for the CFPB. As we detailed in June, the CFPB survived its second constitutional challenge at the Supreme Court in CFSA v. CFPB, and “[n]ewly emboldened, the CFPB’s already robust policy agenda...more

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EEOC Cracks Down on Harassment of Transgender Employees

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On October 25, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (”EEOC”) issued a press release stating it was suing a Michigan restaurant for discrimination. The EEOC alleged Culver’s violated federal law when firing a...more

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