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Nicholas J. Nesgos, Jennifer A. Yelen, Lauren C. Schaefer
Beth Reuter was terminated from her employment with the City of Methuen. On her termination date, the City failed to pay Ms. Reuter for her accrued, unused vacation time, as required by the Massachusetts Wage Act. Instead, the City waited three weeks after her termination to make the payment.
Fernanda Sanchez Jara
- CMS estimates its proposal will result in a decrease of $320 million in Medicare Part A payments to skilled nursing facilities.
- CMS is seeking stakeholder input on the effects of direct-care staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.
- CMS is seeking stakeholder input on the effects of direct-care staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.
Les Jacobowitz
To the extent a party believes it is disadvantaged by the Federal Law, the only alternatives are: (i) passage of ameliorating Federal legislation or (ii) modification of industry-standard contracts to address the adverse impacts of the Federal Law.
Ucheora Onwuamaegbu*, Lee M. Caplan, Timothy J. Feighery
On March 21, the Member States of the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) approved extensive amendments to the Centre’s rules and regulations that will go into effect on July 1, 2022.
Trevor M. Jorgensen
Buckle up, it’s about to get choppy.
Employers sailing in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) waters have come to expect rough seas. By one estimate, the Board overturned more than 4,500 cumulative years of case law during the eight years of the Obama Administration.
Employers sailing in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) waters have come to expect rough seas. By one estimate, the Board overturned more than 4,500 cumulative years of case law during the eight years of the Obama Administration.
Kay C. Georgi, Matthew Tuchband, Sylvia G. Costelloe
On Friday, April 8, 2022, the US Government added two more weapons to its artillery of actions against Russia and Belarus.
Henry Morris, Jr.
We’ve reported on Virginia’s first-in-the-nation, state-wide, permanent COVID-19 workplace standard. Last month, concluding that COVID-19 “no longer poses a ‘grave danger’ to employees,” the state’s Safety and Health Codes Board voted to revoke it. The revocation took effect on March 23d.
Kirstie Brenson, Adam Diederich
This post explains when minority shareholders may owe fiduciary duties and steps that shareholders can take to eliminate any fiduciary duties they might owe.
Brian D. Schneider, Nadia Patel, Margherita A. Capolino
Before being acquired by American Airlines, US Airways sued Sabre for anticompetitive conduct under the Sherman Act. The case begins trial later this spring, and the district court’s recent ruling on summary judgment highlights several interesting facets of the statute of limitations.
George P. Angelich, James E. Britton
The Senate has passed a bill by unanimous consent to extend the heightened debt ceiling for Subchapter V of Chapter 11.
Lynn R. Fiorentino, Debra Albin-Riley, Shayshari Potter
OEHHA proposed its second amendment to the content and conditions for use associated with the widely-used short-form warning permitted under Proposition 65.
D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Elizabeth Satarov, Laura Zell
Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries
Headlines that Matter for Privacy and Data Security
Matthew Tuchband
On Wednesday, April 6, 2022, the U.S. Government, in concert with the G7 and European Union, took significant additional sanctions actions against Russia “to impose severe and immediate economic costs on the Putin regime for its atrocities in Ukraine, including in Bucha.”
Hunter T. Carter, Brian Farkas
The US Supreme Court has limited the jurisdiction of federal courts to hear motions to vacate or confirm domestic arbitral awards. In Badgerow v. Walters, the Court considered whether the Federal Arbitration Act creates independent federal jurisdiction over actions seeking these forms of relief.
Over half a decade after the industry developed its own standards in light of a lack of meaningful guidance from regulators, the Department of Justice recently issued a guidance document on compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for website accessibility.
Caroline Turner English, Alison Lima Andersen, Alexandra Coppola
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently reversed the Northern District of California’s landmark decision against UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s behavioral health unit, United Behavioral Health (“UBH”), under which UBH had been ordered to reprocess tens of thousands of behavioral health claims.
Linda M. Jackson, Andrew Baskin, Michael L. Stevens
Implementation of the District of Columbia’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020 (the “Act”) has now been officially delayed until October 1, 2022. The Act had been scheduled to take effect on April 1, 2022.
D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Mohammed T. Farooqui, Rebecca W. Foreman
Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries
Lynn R. Fiorentino, Noah M. Woo
An Initial Threshold Test Is Not Required in Order to Apply the “ABC Test” in Dynamex
Birgit Matthiesen
In this installment of the Five Questions, Five Answers podcast, Birgit Matthiesen talks trade policy with Flavio Volpe, the President of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers of Canada.
David L. Dubrow, Mark A. Angelov
Private activity bonds may finance projects that rely on novel technology subject to intellectual property protections, such as patents, trade secrets, and know-how.
Ann H. MacDonald, Kaila D. Clark
On March 24, 2022, in the case of Patel v. 7-Eleven, Inc. (No. SJC-13166), the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ruled that whether a franchisee is an independent contractor or an employee
Hunter T. Carter, Malcolm S. McNeil
Co-hosts Hunter Carter and Malcolm McNeil talk about Mexico trade issues dominating the headlines, with Sánchez Devanny Law Firm Partner Eduardo Sotelo Cauduro.
The European Union (EU) and the United States (US) government have now reached an agreement in principle for a “Privacy Shield 2.0” to replace the original Privacy Shield Framework that was invalidated under the Schrems II decision in July 2020.