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Today’s business environment involves more information than ever before, along with more regulations, rules, and risks associated with information management.
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A recent expansion by the DOJ to its FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy (CEP) has gone largely unnoticed, but provides new incentives for companies to self-report misconduct discovered after a merger or acquisition, while raising the specter of increased exposure for companies and executives who sell assets tainted by corruption.
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On Wednesday, September 25, at a surprise appearance after a product event in Seattle, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed that the company’s public policy team is drafting proposed regulations for facial recognition technology, with plans to share them with the federal government.
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Managing the Modern Workplace, October 10, 2019
If you are a human resources manager or an in-house labor lawyer for a U.S. company that is doing business or contemplating doing business in Mexico, you do need to be aware of key differences between U.S. and Mexican labor laws.
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) is entering the fight against foreign bribery and corruption.
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V&E Export Controls Update, October 9, 2019
Effective October 9, 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) added 28 Chinese entities to the Entity List – twenty governmental security bureaus and eight technology companies – thereby effectively barring exports, reexports and transfers of items subject to U.S. jurisdiction to these entities.
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Environmental Blog
On October 4, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signaled an abrupt change to the status quo, by announcing plans to issue a final rulemaking that will increase total renewable fuel volumes under the federal Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) program beginning in 2020 to compensate for volumes lost whenever the EPA grants waivers to “small refiners,” who successfully claim a disproportionate economic hardship under the program.
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Managing the Modern Workplace, October 9, 2019
The death of an employee is an upsetting and traumatic occurrence.
It is also very likely to be unexpected. Thus, it is preferable to have a basic
framework in mind for dealing with such an occurrence before it happens.
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On September 19, 2019, speaking at the Practising Law Institute’s Government Contracts 2019 event, Michael Granston, the Director of the Civil Fraud Division at the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), provided an update on the government’s enforcement activities under the False Claims Act (“FCA”).1
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V&E Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Update, October 4, 2019
On October 1, 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) issued a ruling aimed at defining the meaning of consent in the EU data privacy regime.
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Managing the Modern Workplace, October 3, 2019
We have not talked much about the Worker Adjustment and
Retraining Notification Act (“WARN”) in recent years both because unemployment
has been low and we have not seen many plant closings or mass layoffs that
would trigger WARN.
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The recently proposed 8-K Trading Gap Act of 2019 seeks to address a perceived loophole in current insider trading laws, creating additional regulation and potential source of insider trading liability for directors and executives.
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On Monday, the Supreme Court begins a new term with several note-worthy criminal cases on its docket.
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Managing the Modern Workplace, October 1, 2019
On Thursday, Vinson & Elkins will put on its Ninth Annual Fracking Symposium. This is always a popular seminar where professionals discuss evolving industry practices in the United States, environmental and regulatory developments, market considerations, and litigation risks affecting the industry.
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V&E Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Update, October 1, 2019
On October 1, 2019, Nevada’s amended Internet privacy law (“Amended Law”) went into effect.
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Managing the Modern Workplace, September 26, 2019
In November 2016, a Texas federal
judge enjoined the Obama administration’s regulations that sought to raise the
salary-level requirement for white collar exemptions under the Fair Labor
Standards Act from $23,660 to $47,476. Rather than appeal the injunction, the
new Trump administration instead chose to withdraw the regulations so that they
could be reconsidered.
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Despite never paying any of the compensation at issue and without admitting or denying the allegations, the Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (“Nissan”) agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) $15 million to settle a claim that it engaged in a $140 million fraudulent compensation scheme.
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A few weeks ago we wrote about the skepticism Libra, Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency, faced from U.S. regulators. Since then, Libra’s unpopularity has spread across the Atlantic.
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V&E International Dispute Resolution Update, September 25, 2019
This update provides a reminder of the ICC update note issued by the ICC on 20 December 2018 (effective from 1 January 2019) to parties and arbitral tribunals on the conduct of arbitrations under the ICC Rules of Arbitration (the “2019 Update”).
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Managing the Modern Workplace, September 24, 2019
It’s been so long since I’ve taken a True/False quiz, and as a young man I generally detested the format. Although the answer to the question in the title of this post is False, there really is more to it than that!
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