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[Webinar] 180 Days of the Trump Administration—Quick Hits on Executive Orders, Actions, and Policies - July 17th - August 13th,...

Blank Rome LLP on 7/3/2025

Blank Rome presents a new summer webinar series where our interdisciplinary team will unpack the most pressing legal, regulatory, and policy developments from the Trump Administration’s first 180 days. Each session offers...more

Annual Report on EEOC Developments: Fiscal Year 2024 - An Annual Report on EEOC Charges, Litigation, Regulatory Developments and...

Littler on 4/28/2025

INTRODUCTION - This Annual Report on EEOC Developments—Fiscal Year 2024 (hereafter “Report”), our fourteenth annual publication, is designed as a comprehensive guide to significant Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...more

What U.S. Employers Need to Know about Upcoming DEI Executive Orders

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 2/13/2025

On the first day of President Trump’s second administration, he signed the Ending Racial and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing Executive Order. This order provides direction to eliminate any and all Diversity,...more

Act Now, Don’t Panic Later. Dress Warmly for ICE

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 1/22/2025

The message for 2025 is clear: compliance is not optional, and preparation is essential. Review your policies, automate, and innovate where possible, train your staff, develop job aids, and strengthen your compliance program....more

The Site Report - Construction Law Insights, Issue 12, December 2022

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 1/3/2023

Welcome to the 12th and final issue of the year for The Site Report. Top Three Construction Disputes and How to Avoid Them - Construction professionals sometimes feel as if it is déjà vu when it comes to disputes—and they...more

Ongoing Uncertainty Surrounds COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Government Contractors

Stinson LLP on 11/1/2022

The patchwork collection of state and federal requirements applicable to COVID-19 vaccination continues to remain in flux. Beginning December 2021, there was a nationwide stay in the implementation of Executive Order 14042's...more

What Does the DOJ’s New Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative Mean for You?

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 2/16/2022

As discussed in a previous post, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative to utilize one of the strongest tools in its toolbox—the False Claims Act—to hold entities receiving federal...more

COVID-19 Policies and US Employers: Charting a Path Forward

Dentons on 1/24/2022

The legal landscape around COVID-19 policies and vaccine mandates in the workplace continues to shift under the feet of US employers. With the January 13 US Supreme Court ruling on the OSHA and CMS vaccine rules, and...more

Government Contractor Vaccine Mandate Still Stayed Despite Government Attempts to Overturn

Stinson - Government Contracting Matters on 1/7/2022

The saga continues. In prior alerts, we have been providing updates and analysis regarding continuing practical and legal challenges to implementing the President’s Path Out of the Pandemic plan, and in particular, the...more

Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Update: Implementation Likely Delayed Until ‎February 2022- At The Earliest - If the Mandate...

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 12/22/2021

On December 7, 2021, in Georgia v. Biden, No. 1:21-cv-163, a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of President Joe Biden’s...more

Nationwide Injunction of Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Issued by US District Court, Southern District of Georgia

Jenner & Block on 12/13/2021

On December 7, 2021, Judge R. Stan Baker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a nationwide injunction of the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors issued on September...more

U.S. District Court Enjoins Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on 12/7/2021

As educational institutions sort through the contradictory patchwork of legal requirements regarding COVID vaccine mandates that have emerged over the past year, a U.S. District Court in Kentucky added one more wrinkle. While...more

Executive Order 14042’s Vaccine Mandate for Federal Government Contractors Enjoined in Tennessee, Ohio, and Kentucky

Polsinelli on 12/1/2021

On November 30, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky threw a wrench into the federal government’s efforts to enforce Executive Order 14042’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate against federal...more

Additional Pushback from Certain States on Governmental and Private Employer Vaccine Mandates

Littler on 11/23/2021

Certain states are continuing to prohibit or severely curb the ability of private employers to mandate that employees be vaccinated against COVID-19. In just 10 days since our most recent update, several additional states...more

Update on Vaccine Requirements and Roll Out of the Path out of Pandemic Plan

Stinson LLP on 10/19/2021

We have been answering a number of questions from clients regarding the nature and scope of the requirements for COVID vaccination, testing, masking and more. Our previous alert and blogs laid out the administration's Path...more

Task Force announces details of federal contractor vaccine mandate

Hogan Lovells on 9/27/2021

The Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (Task Force) has issued its guidance (Guidance) regarding the COVID-19 safety protocols that federal contractors must implement under President Biden’s recent Executive Order 14042. The...more

Facing Your Face Mask Duties – A List of Statewide Orders (UPDATED)

Littler on 9/9/2021

Governors and public health officials across the country implemented stringent mitigation measures to help contain the spread of COVID-19. As COVID-19 case rates fluctuate, face coverings remain popular as a preventative...more

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

PilieroMazza PLLC on 5/20/2021

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

Financial Daily Dose 11.15.2019 | Top Story: New Jersey Targets Uber Over “Independent Contractor” Worker Classification

Robins Kaplan LLP on 11/15/2019

Sending a shot across the bow of the gig economy, New Jersey is seeking nearly $650 million from Uber for “years of unpaid employment taxes for its drivers, arguing that the ride-hailing company has misclassified the workers...more

Top 10 Things All Employers Need To Know About Autonomous Vehicles

Fisher Phillips on 10/1/2018

We’re living at a time when a unique convergence of multiple trends is ensuring that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will soon change life as we know it. On the technology side, vehicles are trending towards being electrified and...more

Different but Equivalent: Fourth Circuit Clarifies Parameters of Leave Under Family and Medical Leave Act

Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers,... on 7/3/2017

On May 16, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which governs cases pending in North Carolina, issued an opinion that reveals the parameters within which an employer may fill an employee’s position...more

5 Key Takeaways from My Long List of Regulatory Changes Shared at ECVC2016

NAVEX on 11/28/2016

As 2016 draws to a close with a major political transition underway in Washington, D.C., organizations already dealing with a rapidly evolving regulatory environment now face uncertainty regarding whether some of the new...more

Would OSHA “Punt” on Inspecting an NFL Team?

Fisher Phillips on 10/6/2015

The tragedy this August that claimed the life of one worker and injured another during construction of the new $1.1B Minnesota Vikings football stadium reminded us that serious accidents can happen at any site no matter the...more

Planning for a Possible Government Shutdown: Labor and Employment Issues for Government Contractors

McGuireWoods LLP on 9/25/2015

With the federal government funded only through Sept. 30, 2015, unless Congress acts quickly, there is a reasonable likelihood of another government shutdown beginning Oct. 1, 2015. The looming shutdown will create...more

Could Your Employees Be Eligible for FMLA Leave on Their First Day of Work? The Answer Could Be Yes

PilieroMazza PLLC on 7/20/2015

It would be easy for employers to assume that they need not worry about an employee’s eligibility for Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) leave until at least one year has passed since the employee began working for the...more

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