When President Trump signed the omnibus spending bill on March 23, 2018, he also enacted the Brownfields Utilization, Investment.

On March 30, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed suit to stop Illumina Inc.'s proposed US$7.1 billion acquisition of Grail.

As almost every industry has discovered, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted weaknesses in American supply chains.

There has been no shortage of news this month, so it is understandable that a major presidential proposal garnered relatively little attention at the time.

This is a Supplement to our post on March 24, 2021 regarding Section 9641 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the "ARPA"). This Supplement addresses state and local governmental employers.

On July 26, the 31st anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), President Biden announced in a Rose Garden briefing that persons experiencing long-term COVID-19...

California Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a new batch of worker-friendly laws sponsored by Democrats in the California Assembly and Senate.

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), employers are required to pay non-exempt employees a minimum hourly wage of $7.25.

On March 14, 2022, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a new technical assistance document, "The COVID-19 Pandemic and Caregiver Discrimination...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic forced many employees to temporarily work from home, employers have struggled to bring those remote employees back to the office. Since the return to business as (almost) usual...

In that case, the employer terminated the plaintiff/then-employee Sherryl Darby two weeks after she underwent surgery for a double mastectomy.

In 2017, the State of Kentucky enacted a right-to-work law, which, as you will recall from our prior posts (see here), bars employees from being required as a condition of employment to belong or financially contribute to a labor union.

The Ninth Circuit held that the anti-retaliation provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act do not protect whistleblowers who make internal complaints about potential violations

As we previously reported here, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Washington Supreme Court have been wrestling with whether obesity qualifies as a disability...

On November 15, 2018, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit unanimously held in Netter v. Barnes that an employee did not engage in "opposition or participation"...

On February 6, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled in favor of the City of Philadelphia, upholding the constitutionality of the City's Wage Equity Ordinance

Happy New Year (are we still saying that?) from the Global Supply Chain Law Bog! In our ever-evolving society, the fashion industry has taken new heights.

On June 12, 2019, the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) announced its seven enforcement and compliance assurance priority areas for fiscal years 2020-2023.

In June 2019, the Lower Health Care Costs Act passed out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee with a vote of 20-3.

Yesterday, in response to a court victory by several hospital associations, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it will begin fixing calendar year 2019...