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The chamber voted 93-7 to send the Bring Jobs Home Act (S. 2569) to the Senate floor for consideration.

During the 2008 Presidential campaign, the outsourcing community, particularly those involved in offshore outsourcing, were quite concerned with then-Senator Barrack Obama’s comments on the damage being done to American workers by offshore outsourcing and his commitment to fight it.

On March 29, 2011, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) published for industry comment a proposed rule clarifying the scope of a member firm's obligations and supervisory responsibilities for functions or activities outsourced to a third-party.

The House of Representatives March 8, 2012, voted down the Outsourcing Accountability Act of 2012 (HR 3875) by a vote of 230 to 175.

In the last 13 years, U.S. productivity growth has exceeded competitors.

If your corporate IT "cloud" casts a shadow in Massachusetts, you have mere weeks to finalize the compliance program for your IT service contracts or face the thunderstorm of penalties under that state’s data security law.

The federal Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program provides funds for job retraining and other benefits to those who have lost jobs due to international trade, including offshore outsourcing.

Employment lawyers anticipate that employers’ social media policies and their use of independent contractors will be hot button issues in the New Year, much like they were in 2012.

Reasons companies outsource general legal work include: increased revenue generation, managing confidentiality, and avoiding liability.

Calling outsourcing "one of the scourges of our economy," Rep. Timothy Bishop (D-N.Y.) has introduced a bill that would make companies that relocate call centers to locations outside of the United States ineligible for federal grant or guaranteed loan programs for five years.

At FINRA's recently held Annual Conference, Grace Vogel, FINRA Executive Vice President, was asked about the status of Proposed Rule 3190 regarding the regulation of third-party service providers, including, without limitation, heightened supervisory requirements for clearing and carrying firms.

Recently, a federal court in the Northern District of California issued an important ruling in the closely followed Mobley v. Workday putative class action lawsuit alleging that Workday violated federal discrimination laws.

In this whitepaper, Kenneth Adler, a partner at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner and Chair of the Outsourcing group, along with Danny Ertel, a founding partner of Vantage Partners and the head of its Outsourcing practice, examine the dynamics that typically drive many of the problems in outsourcing relationships and provide the keys to developing workable and durable solutions.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced a bill that would require customer service agents located outside of the United States and working on behalf of entities conducting business in the United States.

In December 2011 we reported on a federal bill that would make companies that relocate call centers to locations outside of the United States ineligible for federal grant or guaranteed loan programs for five years.

California state court orders San Diego Union Tribune, owned by Copley Press Inc., to pay $6.1 million in legal fees to the attorneys for a class of over 1,200 paper carriers who had earlier been awarded $3.2 million in damages for misclassification as independent contractors and another $1.75 million in interest.

On September 29, the House subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions held a legislative hearing to consider the Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act, H.R. 3459.

On July 23, 2008, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) published a notice in the Federal Register, stating that it may be illegal to outsource invention information to a foreign country for the purposes of preparing a patent application to be filed in the United States.