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On February 3, 2023, the SEC announced that Activision Blizzard Inc. — the publicly traded video game developer and publisher of such well-known videogames as “Candy Crush” and “World of Warcraft” — “agreed to pay $35 million to settle charges that it failed to maintain disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that the company could assess whether its disclosures pertaining to its workforce were adequate” and “violated an SEC whistleblower protection rule” by impeding employees “from communicating directly with the Commission staff about a possible securities law violation.”

February 7, 2023
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In an attempt to address concerns about pay inequity, California and New York rang in the new year by implementing laws that require employers to include information about compensation ranges in job postings, joining Washington, Colorado and Connecticut, which have already implemented similar pay transparency laws.

January 12, 2023
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On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced plans to prohibit employers from imposing or enforcing non-compete clauses in agreements with workers, including employees and independent contractors, in almost all contexts.

January 6, 2023
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In a surprising release, on November 29, 2022, the Department of Treasury (the “Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the “Service”) issued Notice 2022-61 (the “Notice”), providing initial guidance on the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements (the “Labor Requirements”) impacting a broad swath of clean energy tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IRA”) (i.e., sections 45, 30C, 45, 45Q, 45V, 45Y, 45Z, 48, 48C, 48E, and 179D of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”)).

November 30, 2022
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On October 25, 2022, a federal jury in Houston awarded a woman $365,000,000 in punitive damages and over $1,000,000 in compensatory damages, after finding that her employer had terminated her in retaliation for complaining about race discrimination.

November 29, 2022
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Attorneys from our Employment, Labor and OSHA (ELO) and Tax Groups discussed the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements in the Inflation Reduction Act.
November 9, 2022
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Consider the following scenario: Your company uses a contractor staffing company to perform cleaning and maintenance tasks at one of its facilities.

August 8, 2022
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Every year, April brings surprises for the unwary — typically in the form of an April fool’s joke.

June 17, 2022
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Social media is a relatively new character in the classic tale of a unionizing workforce.

June 8, 2022
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When unions seek to organize a group of employees, they often prefer to target a particular group or groups of employees in job classifications that they are confident will vote in favor of unionizing, as opposed to trying to persuade a much larger group.

April 20, 2022
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Social media has likely had a role in fueling the malaise of unionizing employees who believe that the company they work for has a bad reputation.

April 18, 2022
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In this video, Alex Bluebond discusses the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance’s (OFCCP) new directive on pay equity audits.

April 15, 2022
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