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Outsourcing raises a number of cross-border legal issues that are increasingly receiving attention from both consumer groups and governments. One of the hottest issues concerns the relationship between outsourcing and international privacy laws and the increasing burdens placed on outsourcing customers and suppliers to protect information.

As the recession abates, most institutions are still struggling to generate adequate revenues.

The European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") released an opinion today on supervisory convergence in the context of the UK withdrawing from the European Union ("EU").

Earlier today, November 18, 2013, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor entered into a Partnership Agreement with the Labor Bureau of the New York State Office of Attorney General and a similar Agreement with the New York State Department of Labor.

◾A Massachusetts federal court approved on November 26, 2013 a $10.0 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against CleanNet USA Inc., who was alleged to have violated Massachusetts independent contractor law by misclassifying employees as independent contractor "franchisees."

In recent months, various agencies tasked with enforcing federal labor and employment laws have been a hotbed of activity — publishing guidance memoranda, enforcement directives, and the like.

The trend of outsourcing to overseas suppliers and contractors may be losing some of its luster.

Procurement leaders face mounting pressure to deliver 2-5% annual cost reductions while navigating tariffs, geopolitical shifts, and talent shortages. Agentic AI is emerging as a structural solution to these constraints, with early adopters already seeing EBITDA impacts of 4.7 percentage points compared to 3.6 for less mature peers. The critical question is whether organizations will successfully pair AI agents with human judgment to capture value, or fall behind competitors who are already compounding gain

Businesses evaluate different strategies to find the most effective way to minimize costs and bring their products to the market. One of those strategies is outsourcing...

As remote work becomes increasingly prevalent, employers face complex questions about reimbursing employees for personal device usage and home office expenses.

Outsourcing development – particularly software programming and information-technology (IT) design, and particularly to countries like India and China – has become institutionalized.

U.S. lawmakers’ attempts to impose federal limitations on outsourcing, including limits on a contractor’s ability to offshore outsourced contractual ob-ligations in a U.S. government procure-ment, appear to have stalled. While still a hot topic in Congress, the United States’ commitment to free trade, as well as its various international treaty obligations, serves as a formidable bulwark to any attempt to restrict outsourcing.

In a previous article, we explored strategies for managing and resolving issues with suppliers in outsourcing agreements (here). The essence lies in fostering open communication, adhering to the contract...

The High Court of Australia's decision in the Qantas outsourcing case[1] has been widely reported. But both the scope of the decision and the key takeaway have potentially been misunderstood.

In our November 2003 Employment Law Commentary, we reported on both the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act (S.B. 796) and also the appellate court decision in <I>Ralphs Grocery Co. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles (David Swanson)</I>, 112 Cal. App. 4th 1090 (2003).

Non-compete agreements may all but disappear from the Washington, D.C. employment landscape in 2021

On 3 March 2005, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") gave its judgment in Staatssecretaris van Financien v Arthur Andersen & Co Accountants cs.

In recent years, several large law firms have gained attention by centralizing their back-office functions offsite...