PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - DOL’s Guidance on Continued COVID-19 Timeframe Relief
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - COVID-19 Edition - Deadline Extensions Impacting HIPAA, COBRA and ERISA
What's Next for the Paycheck Protection Program? by Lindsey Berwick and John Wittenberg
In what might have been a Valentine’s Day gift for retail employers across New York, on February 14, 2025, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law an amendment to the New York Retail Worker Safety Act (S8358B/A8947C, Chapter...more
In a significant ruling on February 9, 2024, the California Court of Appeal reversed a trial court judgment that had stayed enforcement of California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations. This decision will make certain...more
The Advanced Clean Fleets (“ACF") regulation (“ACF Regulation") applies to truck fleets and imposes requirements on fleets to register their vehicles to monitor and facilitate the transition of fleet vehicles from internal...more
In a world of solar power, green energy, and electric cars, it is sometimes surprising to consider how much of a political hot potato good ol’ fashioned coal remains. There are more than 300 coal-fired power plants still...more
On June 30, the Sacramento County Superior Court issued a ruling that will delay enforcement of regulations issued pursuant to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) to March 29, 2024. These regulations were originally...more
A California court has held that the regulations the California Privacy Protection Agency adopted in March 2023 may not be enforced until March 2024. On June 30, 2023, a day before the California Consumer Privacy Act...more
In an unexpected turn of events, a California court postponed enforcement of the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations until March 29, 2024. The court’s final decision came at the eleventh hour on June 30,...more
The updated California data protection law itself is now in effect and enforceable as of July 1, 2023; however, enforcement of the regulations—which clarify key provisions of the law—is delayed. Just before full...more
On June 29, 2023, the Superior Court of California for the County of Sacramento (Court) issued a tentative ruling staying the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) from enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act of...more
What Happened? I Thought This Was Gone! On Friday, December 17, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit lifted the nationwide Stay that had been previously put in place by the United States Court of...more
In Field Assistance Bulleting 2021-02, published on October 25, 2021, the US Department of Labor announced with respect to its Fiduciary Rule 3.0 that: ..The temporary ERISA enforcement policy for conflicted fiduciary...more
On June 29, 2020, USEPA issued a memorandum on a termination addendum to the COVID-19 temporary enforcement policy. USEPA has selected August 31, 2020, as the termination date for the temporary enforcement policy, as it...more
Implications for banking and consumer litigation during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, against the backdrop of the draft acts forming part of the "Anti-Crisis Shield" (the Draft Act), as at 26 March 2020....more
• The California Legislature passed SB 1121 to revise certain sections of the CCPA – the nation’s strictest privacy protection statute which provides Californians with a right to learn what personal information certain...more