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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and... more +
Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings.  less -
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Weak Demand Leads to Layoffs Among California Wineries: Navigating the Legal Risks of Cost-Cutting

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Recent studies indicate a steady decline in alcohol consumption in the United States over the past several years, following a global trend that has seen decreases in alcohol consumption from Ireland to India. Several factors...more

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Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – May 2021 #2

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Protecting Your Company Against Revenue Clawbacks: Preference Actions (Part 3 of 3) - This is the final part of our three-part series on revenue clawbacks. The scenario: a customer or teaming partner goes bankrupt and then...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.30.2020 | Top Story: Salesforce in Talks to Buy Slack Technologies

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Bay area business software powerhouse Salesforce is “in advanced talks to buy Slack Technologies,” the “buzzy newcomer on a mission to replace office email.” A deal could be announced as early as tomorrow, and it would mark...more

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Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines – COVID-19 D.C. Update – July 2020 #10

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In Washington: The White House denies that it is trying to undermine the nation’s top disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Today the President’s trade advisor, Peter Navarro blasted Dr. Fauci’s handling of the coronavirus in...more

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Financial Daily Dose 5.5.2020 | Top Story: WeWork’s Neumann sues SoftBank over scuttled $3B share purchase

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WeWork co-founder wants to get PAAAAAID, so he’s suing SoftBank in an attempt to force it to “go through with its canceled deal to buy $3 billion of the company’s shares, accusing the Japanese conglomerate and its Vision Fund...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.17.2020 | Top Story: The Bear Market Roars, with Markets Falling nearly 13% as Whole Sectors of US Economy...

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As Americans [way-too] slowly come to the realization that COVID-19 is a very real and very present threat, the business world is changing around them at a staggering pace. Stocks nosedived again on Monday, with the three...more

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Major Revisions to New Jersey’s WARN Act Require Payment of Severance, Expand Notice Requirements, and Increase Liability for Mass...

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On January 21, 2020, New Jersey Governor Murphy enacted major revisions to the New Jersey Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act, commonly referred to as the New Jersey WARN Act (“NJ WARN Act”), that make...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.22.2019 | Top Story: WeWork Cuts Nearly 20% of Global Workforce

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The first cuts from WeWork hit this week, and they’ll take the form of 2,400 employees around the world—some 20% of the struggling company’s workforce....more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.1.2019 | Top Story: Credit Suisse COO Resigns in Wake of Corporate Spying Scandal

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Top Tidjane Thiam ally Pierre-Olivier Bouee, Credit Suisse’s COO, has resigned in the wake of an internal probe finding that he “ordered the surveillance of the bank’s former wealth-management chief, Iqbal Khan, without...more

Jones Day

European Labour & Employment Update - September 2017

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In this edition, we report from around Europe on some interesting case law developments that affect the way employers manage their employees. The range of issues covered shows that, despite the breadth of directives issued by...more

Mintz - Bankruptcy & Restructuring Viewpoints

First Circuit Rules that Bankruptcy Court “Retention of Jurisdiction” Provisions Not Enough to Establish Jurisdiction

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It is very common for bankruptcy court orders to provide that the court retains jurisdiction to enforce such orders. Similarly, chapter 11 confirmation orders routinely provide that the bankruptcy court retains jurisdiction...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

KL Snapshot #13 – Mars-Avril 2017

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Jean-Pierre Mattout - La révocation du président pour différend stratégique avec l’actionnaire majoritaire, in Revue des sociétés avril 2017 - Gilles Kolifrath, Jérôme Blanchet, Mélanie Goupy & Galina Petrova -...more

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Executive Labor Summary - September / October 2015

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Back to the Past at VW Chattanooga? - On October 23, the United Auto Workers' Local 42 filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to represent a bargaining unit of skilled trades workers at Volkswagen's...more

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Socially Aware: The Social Media Law Update Volume 6, Issue 4

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Five social media law issues to discuss with your clients - The explosive growth of social media has clients facing legal questions that didn’t even exist a few short years ago. Helping your clients navigate this...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

When One Solution Is Better Than Two

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Over the years, clients have sought my advice after they have obtained a judgment against a limited liability company or a corporation, and after they have tried, without success, to collect on that judgment. All of the...more

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New York Bankruptcy Court Strikes Defenses To Federal And State WARN Acts

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In re: Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, No. 12-12321 (MG) (S.D.N.Y. Bankr., April 10, 2014): As part of the bankruptcy proceedings involving Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York struck...more

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