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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Dusting Off the Ol’ Employee Handbook for 2025

As we prepare for 2025, it’s essential to update your employee handbook to reflect the latest legal requirements, workplace trends, and best practices. Now is an opportune time to review and revise your policies to ensure...more

Brooks Pierce

Counting Down to the New Year: Ten “Need-to-Know” Labor and Employment Developments of 2024

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2024 was yet another active year in the labor and employment landscape. While 2025 and the new administration could bring any number of changes to workplace laws and enforcement, the timing and extent of such changes is...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Cannabis and the Law

4th Circuit Challenges DEA’s Findings on the Legality of Certain Hemp Derived Cannabinoids

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (“DEA”) classification of certain hemp-derived cannabinoids as unlawful was not entitled to deference, given that the language...more

Carr Maloney P.C.

25 Lawmakers Oppose Cannabis Rescheduling

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On August 29, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services sent a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) urging them to reclassify marijuana as a schedule III drug. The Department of Health and Human...more

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DOL Publishes Final Rule on Employee or Independent Contractor Classification

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On Jan. 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced the upcoming publication of its final rule on how to analyze whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)....more

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Coalition Releases Report on Federal Cannabis Classification

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The Coalition for Cannabis Scheduling Reform (CCSR) recently released its comprehensive report on the federal classification of cannabis, co-authored by Perkins Coie Cannabis industry group co-chair Andrew Kline, with support...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Independent Contractor Classification - Deadline to Submit Comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is Approaching

On October 13, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to modify Wage and Hour Division regulations to revise its analysis for determining employee or independent contractor...more

McDermott Will & Emery

The DOL Has Issued New Proposed Independent Contractor Classification Rules: What Now?

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On October 11, 2022, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking to undo the Trump administration’s 2021 independent contractor regulations and revert to the six-factor...more

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Kangaroo Court: AI Regulation and Image Classification

The next decade will witness the introduction of AI regulation at both the Federal and State level. Much of this regulation will focus on the use of autonomous and self-driving cars. In 2016 the Obama administration...more

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