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On February 27, 2021 the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

It's Friday and time for another overview of developments in the field of business and human rights that we've been monitoring.

As a reminder, investment advisers who are subject to any state registration, renewal or notice filing fees must have funded their IARD accounts by December 14, 2020

Following its previously announced enforcement sweep in September 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on September 25, 2024...

On December 28, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") granted an extension to the deadline for complying with certain portions of the new Part 2, Form ADV requirements.

The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance has determined that, until at least September 30, 2026, it will not respond to requests by issuers for no-action relief for their decisions...

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently criticized government agencies for outsourcing their investigation to the target company,

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a criminal complaint last Friday in the most significant COVID-19 fraud prosecution to date. A complaint is a charging document usually submitted to a court to obtain an arrest warrant.

In yet another sign that the federal government is following through on its warnings about PPP loan fraud, the Department of Justice, according to reports from Reuters, has issued grand jury subpoenas...

This new language makes two significant changes to the current state of the law.

On September 24, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new final rule strengthening the enforcement provisions of existing regulations concerning tipped employees.

Last week, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act of 2010 ("the Act"), which, among other provisions, expands the two categories of family military leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"), exigency leave and servicemember caregiver leave.

On April 7, 2021, the Department of Labor ("DOL) released a series of Frequently Asked Questions with clarifying information about the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021's ("ARPA")...

Last night, President Obama signed into law the Temporary Extension Act of 2010, which among other provisions, includes a further extension of the federal COBRA subsidy created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ("ARRA").

As we have previously reported, Massachusetts wage and hour laws strongly disfavor the classification of individuals as independent contractors rather than employees.

On July 31, 2024, Governor Maura Healy signed into law wage equity legislation that creates new disclosure requirements for Massachusetts-based employers.

On March 5, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled in DeWeese-Boyd v. Gordon College, et. al. that an associate professor at a private, Christian liberal arts college did not...

Our colleages have analyzed a significant NLRB decision in Purple Communications Inc. that, in most circumstances, employees have a right to use employer email systems for non-business purposes during non-working time.