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Managing the Modern Workplace, October 24, 2019
On October 10, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law that prohibits employers from requiring any applicant or employee “waive any right, forum or procedure for a violation of any provision of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.”
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The United States and the United Kingdom recently entered the first ever CLOUD Act Agreement, which aims to streamline the process by which either government can collect electronic evidence located in the other country.
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Managing the Modern Workplace, October 22, 2019
There are a lot of good folks out there who might help your company but who have noncompete agreements or other restrictions in agreements with their current or recent employers. To decide whether to hire such employees, you may decide that you should review their agreement, have discussions with them about the restrictions, and maybe even reach out to their prior employer.
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V&E Government Investigations Update, October 21, 2019
A new Department of Justice (“DOJ”) policy provides for additional transparency and long-needed guidance to prosecutors who often evaluate inability-to-pay claims by companies facing substantial criminal fines and penalties.
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V&E Government Contracts Update, October 21, 2019
On October 9, 2019, President Trump issued the Executive Order on Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents (the “Order”).
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Environmental Blog
The Railroad Commission has formally proposed rules that would add safety requirements for rural gathering pipelines.
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Managing the Modern Workplace, October 18, 2019
Last Thursday, the NLRB approved a pair of workplace rules in a decision related to the protection of proprietary client and vendor lists and limits on who may speak to the media on the employer’s behalf. The Board grounded its decision in a common sense reading of the text of the workplace rules, finding that neither rule could reasonably be read to limit any protected activity, despite some minor points of textual ambiguity.
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The SEC recently entered into a settlement with Marvell Technology Group, Ltd., based on Marvell’s manipulation of revenue reported in the company’s public statements.
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On September 22, 2019, 130 banks signed onto the United Nations’ newly launched Principles for Responsible Banking (the “Principles”).
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V&E Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Update, October 16, 2019
On October 10, 2019, the California Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, published proposed regulations (the “Regulations”) designed to clarify the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”).
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First published by Tax Notes Today, September 16, 2019
In this article, the authors discuss two recent cases that question how much weight courts should give an agency’s position that is first raised in litigation
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Managing the Modern Workplace, October 15, 2019
Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the first LGBTQ rights cases to be heard by the Court since the 2015 gay marriage case.
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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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