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Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Common Mistakes New Business Owners Make & How to Fix Them

Starting a new business? The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that 20% of new businesses fail in the first two years, 45% in the first five years. As daunting as those figures may seem, there are measures you can...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Personal Liability For Wage Hour Violations: What’s In A Word—Answer- A Lot!

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I do a lot of wage hour defense and one of the threats I constantly come up against is a Department of Labor telling me that the owner of the Company or corporate officers will be held personally liable for unpaid wages if...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

DOJ Announces 2019 FCA Recovery, Majority Came from Healthcare Industry

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this month that it obtained over $3 billion in settlements and judgments from civil fraud and false claims cases during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019 (FY 2019). Of this...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Soup, Salvation and Overtime: Sixth Circuit Takes Up Televangelist’s FLSA Appeal

Are you entitled to FLSA coverage if you are doing the Lord’s work? In March 2017, a federal district court in Ohio answered “yes” and awarded almost $400,000 to unpaid employees/volunteers of a church restaurant....more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Trucking Company Owner Personally Liable for Whistleblower Retaliation Claim

Recent amendments to the Surface Transportation Act include a new cause of action for employees of companies engaged in interstate transportation who allege that they were fired or had other adverse action taken against them...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

New Fiduciary Rule & Its Impact on Retirement Advice for Plan Sponsors

After much controversy and criticism, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final conflict of interest rule on April 6th (the “Final Rule”) which expands the definition of a fiduciary for an “employee benefit plan,” as...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

Employment Law Developments for Manufacturers:  Predictably Unpredictable!

Manufacturers should take note of two recent developments in the human resources world. One expected. The other not. Frequent readers of this blog may recall that in January I predicted the United States Department of...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Broker-Dealer Liability: Are the Rules Pertaining to Providing Investment Advice to Retail Customers About to Change?

In the securities industry, broker-dealers play an important and vital role. If the current broker-dealer regulatory environment is not daunting enough already, it is about to get more complicated and costly, from a revenue...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Focus on Private Equity - July 2015

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What Private Equity Funds Should Know About ERISA: Basics of ERISA Coverage - The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA) imposes numerous duties on fiduciaries holding employee benefit...more

Fisher Phillips

When "Free" Is Too Good To Be True: Rethinking Interns And Volunteers Under Wage & Hour Laws

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Educational institutions of all kinds often utilize the services of volunteers or so-called interns to assist with coaching sports or other extracurricular activities, and to participate in programs that are mutually...more

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