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Read guidance, analysis, and updates on the myriad issues arising from the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated hourly every day, the insights published here are written by leading lawyers and law firms... more +
Read guidance, analysis, and updates on the myriad issues arising from the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated hourly every day, the insights published here are written by leading lawyers and law firms helping to make sense of insurance, employment, tax, securities, M&A, risk management, and every other consideration touched by this crisis. Follow the channel for a daily email brief of the latest and best updates. less -
Allen Matkins

What is the outlook for the office sector right now?

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“The 'flight to quality' continues. Office building landlords with space available in upscale buildings (with state-of-the-art amenities) located in hot submarkets are very active right now. Most companies have realized...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Wage and Hour Around the Corner: From Zoom to Room Staying on Solid Legal Grounds with a Remote Staff or an Office Return

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The rules governing the employment relationship are always changing. Laws creating new employer obligations, technology solutions making work more efficient and more complicated, and rules governing the resolution of disputes...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Remote meetings reauthorized through June 2027

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On March 28, 2025, Mass. Governor Maura Healy signed an emergency law extending the COVID-19 remote and hybrid meeting authorizations for public meetings of local boards and committees until June 30, 2027. The law, Chapter 2...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Employer to Nonresident Employee: “You Cannot Work in New York”; New York to Employee: “We Will Tax You Anyway”

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You are probably aware that many employers are discarding the fully flexible, remote work policies that were forced upon them – as “nonessential” businesses – during the COVID-19 pandemic[i] and which they retained as an...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Hybrid Workplaces + Regulatory Obligations: What FINRA Members Need to Know About the RSL Rule and Remote Inspections

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As of June 1, 2024, FINRA member firms have been able to identify as a “Residential Supervisory Location” (RSL) a “private residence from which an associated person engages in supervisory functions,” so long as certain...more

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Total Systems Services to Pay $65,000 in Disability Discrimination Lawsuit

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Federal Agency Alleged Global Payments Company Denied Worker’s Pleas for Remote Work Due to High Risk for COVID-19 Infection - ATLANTA – Total Systems Services, LLC, a global payments processing company based in Columbus,...more

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UK Labour Government Proposes the Right to ‘Switch Off’

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The United Kingdom continues to see rapid growth in the number of workplaces adopting remote and hybrid work arrangements, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although this new type of work offers many...more

Cozen O'Connor

Broad Street Brief: Plan to “Greenify” Avenue of the Arts Unveiled

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From Prosecutor to Chief Public Safety Director- Adam Geer — Mayor Cherelle Parker’s inaugural nominee for Chief Public Safety Director, a position created by City Council last year — spent the majority of his career as a...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

FINRA Releases Long-Anticipated Guidance on New Work-From-Home Exemption Ahead of Impending COVID-19 Relief Expiration

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FINRA’s guidance sheds further light on the new rule, which will permit firms to elect “non-branch” designation for a private residence where an associated person conducts specified supervisory activities....more

Ius Laboris

Last call for European cross-border telework 

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On 1 January 2024 the EU Framework Agreement on cross-border telework finally entered into force in Italy....more

Perkins Coie

Remote Proceeding Tracker - Update April 2024

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In response to COVID-19, courts were forced to adapt to the pandemic and adopt new rules regarding in-person and remote proceedings. The list below contains links to each state’s laws and rules related to remote proceedings....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Lesson Learned: Man Charged with Insider Trading After Misappropriating Information from Wife’s Work-From-Home Calls

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As we previously reported in March 2020, the implementation of remote work policies heightens the risk of misappropriation of trade secrets in remote work environments and could require businesses to take additional steps to...more

International Lawyers Network

The COVID Anniversary – Not A Blip but a Sea Change

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It’s been just over four years since the world shut down for the COVID-19 pandemic. In some ways, it feels like another lifetime, and I believe that’s a trauma response. But a LOT has changed since 2020. I do firmly believe,...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Supreme Court of Ohio Rules Extraterritorial Municipal Income Taxation Constitutional During Covid-19 Emergency

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On February 14, 2024, the Supreme Court of Ohio issued a 5-2 decision holding it was constitutional for a municipality to continue levying income taxes on employees performing work beyond municipal boundaries during the...more

NAM (National Arbitration and Mediation)

MedMal Disputes – Negotiating a Settlement is Still the Best Method of Resolution

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Someone told me, long ago, that the days go slowly, and the years fly by.  No statement can be more accurate when referring to the past four years.  Because on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, while still serving as a Justice of the...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Don’t Let a Tight Labor Market Get Your Guard Down

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In wrongful termination cases in the U.S., the primary source of liability for employers is an employee’s alleged lost wages. Under U.S. law, an employee who is terminated for a discriminatory or a retaliatory reason is...more

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Ohio Supreme Court Rules That Municipalities Could Temporarily Collect Income Tax From Remote Workers During Pandemic

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On February 14, 2024, in Schaad v. Alder, the Supreme Court of Ohio upheld the constitutionality of a temporary Ohio law allowing municipalities where a principal place of business was located to collect income tax from...more

BakerHostetler

Ohio Supreme Court Issues Important Municipal Income Tax Decision on Remote Work

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The Ohio Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Schaad v. Alder, Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-525, decided on February 14, 2024. ...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Fourth Circuit Upholds Employer's Denial of Remote Work During Pandemic

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During the COVID-19 pandemic and afterwards, employers have faced a growing number of requests for remote work arrangements based on a medical disability. The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to grant...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Is it Essential I Come Back to My Cubicle? Maybe.

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Seems like every other day we hear about some company calling employees back to the office. Some go better than others. I am not the first person to say this, but we’re entering and setting up camp in a new era of work....more

Cozen O'Connor

Cozen Cities - January 17, 2024

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CHICAGO — After Latest Shooting, Rideshare Drivers Protest Outside Midway Airport for Change- Several rideshare drivers protested outside Midway Airport last Friday for better safety and stable pay. The Chicago Police...more

Perkins Coie

Remote Proceeding Tracker

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In response to COVID-19, courts were forced to adapt to the pandemic and adopt new rules regarding in-person and remote proceedings. The list below contains links to each state’s laws and rules related to remote proceedings....more

Littler

Key Considerations for Employers as the Public Sector Grapples with Return to Office

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Public sector employers are not immune from the challenges of returning employees to the office. A slew of recent government actions and opposition highlights the challenges public employers face as they try to rein in remote...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Current Considerations About COVID-19 in the Workplace

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The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency officially ended on May 11, 2023, when the Department of Health and Human Services allowed the federal Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 to expire, but people are still getting...more

Fisher Phillips

Workplace Law Forecast 2024 - Your workplace law recap for 2023 and predictions for 2024 to help you prepare for the coming year.

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When I reflect on the relationship that our firm has with our clients, I’m most proud of the fact that you can always count on us. That often means defending complex litigation, steering you through regulatory threats,...more

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