Welcome to our third issue of The Site Report for 2025! In this edition, we address new case law impacting contract provisions in South Carolina, construction-related pricing and tariffs, the new administration's effect on...more
4/2/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Construction Contracts ,
Construction Industry ,
Construction Litigation ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Data Centers ,
Employee Mobility ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Machine Learning ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
OSHA ,
Pay Transparency ,
Subcontractors ,
Tariffs ,
Technology Sector ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour
Welcome to our third issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter.
In this edition, we look at the possible expiration of telehealth flexibilities for Medicare patients, the potential...more
3/11/2025
/ Competition ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Employee Mobility ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Gender Identity ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Insurance Industry ,
Medicare ,
NLRB ,
Pay Transparency ,
Pricing ,
Technology Sector ,
Telehealth ,
Transgender ,
Trump Administration
One of the biggest hot topics during the Biden administration was the legality and enforceability of non-compete agreements in employment. The Biden administration aggressively tried to eliminate employer-imposed restraints...more
3/7/2025
/ Antitrust Provisions ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employees ,
Employment Contract ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
NLRB ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
NRLA ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Trump Administration
Welcome to our first issue of SuperVision in 2025. In this edition, we cover the new presidential administration’s anticipated impact on employment agreements, the National Labor Relations Board, and workplace safety...more
3/4/2025
/ Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employee Mobility ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ,
Immigration Reform ,
Labor Reform ,
Legislative Agendas ,
New Regulations ,
NLRB ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
OSHA ,
Pay Transparency ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Trump Administration ,
Unions ,
Workplace Safety
Welcome to our second issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter.
In this edition, we look at the effect of the decline of DEI on the healthcare industry, the fate of Medicaid under the...more
2/11/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Audits ,
Bots ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Data Privacy ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
EU ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Grants ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Hospitals ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ,
Immigration Reform ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Medicaid ,
Privacy Laws ,
Raids ,
Ransomware ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Freeze ,
Reproductive Healthcare Issues ,
Technology Sector ,
Telehealth ,
Trump Administration ,
UK
Welcome to our first 2025 issue of The Site Report! As we begin the new year, we look forward to bringing you insight into the myriad of legal, technological, code and other changes impacting the construction industry. In...more
2/3/2025
/ American Bar Association (ABA) ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Climate Change ,
Construction Industry ,
Cybersecurity ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Form I-9 ,
General Contractors ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Subcontractors ,
Technology Sector ,
Trump Administration
Welcome to our year-end issue of The Site Report! As always, the construction industry is ever-changing and is impacted by extreme weather, new technology, labor issues, material and supply chain restraints, and code changes....more
12/20/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Chevron Deference ,
Construction Contracts ,
Construction Industry ,
Construction Project ,
Contractors ,
Data Centers ,
DBE Program ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Machine Learning ,
Mechanics Lien ,
Minority-Owned Businesses ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
OSHA ,
Project Labor Agreements ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Mandates ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
State and Local Government ,
Statute of Repose ,
Subcontractors ,
Supply Chain ,
Wage and Hour ,
Women-Owned Businesses ,
Workplace Safety
In November 2024, in Amazon.com Services LLC, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that an employer violates the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it requires employees to attend meetings in which the...more
12/9/2024
/ Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Special Meetings ,
Union Elections ,
Union Organizers ,
Unions
Happy Holidays and welcome to our year-end issue of SuperVision. In this edition, we are pleased to bring you the “Top Five” biggest labor and employment issues that will impact employers for the coming year along with...more
12/9/2024
/ Corporate Transparency Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Exempt-Employees ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Final Rules ,
FMLA Abuse ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
Minimum Salary ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Over-Time ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Special Meetings ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Stays ,
Threshold Requirements ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour
Welcome to our 10th issue of 2024 for our construction industry insights e-newsletter - The Site Report. In this edition, we cover a wide variety of topics of interest for those in the construction industry—from the use of...more
11/1/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Construction Industry ,
Contractors ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cybersecurity ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Litigation ,
Environmental Litigation ,
Environmental Policies ,
Federal Bans ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Final Rules ,
Heat Exposure ,
Job Ads ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
OFCCP ,
OSHA ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Scams ,
Subcontractors ,
Technology ,
Workers' Compensation Claim
Welcome to our sixth issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we take a look at the impact of AI when it comes to diverse health data, the FDA and AI medical devices, Virginia's...more
10/25/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Breach ,
Data Security ,
Diversity ,
Federal Bans ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Labor Shortage ,
Machine Learning ,
Medical Devices ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Technology ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a Final Rule outlawing nearly all noncompete agreements between employers and employees. That Final Rule, however, was overturned at the end of August 2024....more
10/2/2024
/ Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Federal Bans ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Final Rules ,
Lack of Authority ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Non-Solicitation Agreements ,
Popular ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
State Labor Laws ,
Texas
Welcome to the fall issue of SuperVision, our labor and employment e-newsletter. In this edition, we cover the current status of the FTC’s attempts to ban noncompetes, OSHA’s proposed heat standard, how to handle political...more
10/2/2024
/ Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Litigation ,
Federal Bans ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Final Rules ,
Harassment ,
Health and Safety ,
Heat Exposure ,
Lack of Authority ,
New Regulations ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Off-Duty Employees ,
OSHA ,
Political Speech ,
Public Policy ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Workers' Compensation Claim ,
Workplace Safety
Welcome to the eighth 2024 issue of Currents - our e-newsletter focused on energy topics.
Is Nuclear the Panacea to Data Center Load Growth?
Per public data, after years of relatively flat load growth around the...more
8/26/2024
/ Capacity Market ,
China ,
Climate Change ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) ,
Data Centers ,
Energy Sector ,
Energy Storage ,
Federal Bans ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Final Rules ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Nuclear Power ,
PJM ,
Power Plants ,
Utilities Sector
A federal district court in Texas has set aside the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule that bans most noncompetition agreements (the Noncompete Rule). The final rule was scheduled to go into effect on September 4,...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a tool used by employers to save time and improve compliance when drafting employment policies. However, AI’s current usefulness has limits and comes with risks...more
Welcome to the Summer issue of SuperVision, our labor and employment e-newsletter. We continue to see substantial activity and legal developments impacting employers. In this edition, we cover Artificial Intelligence,...more
8/1/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Chevron Deference ,
Chevron v NRDC ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Final Rules ,
Government Agencies ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Machine Learning ,
Minimum Wage ,
Over-Time ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
Threshold Requirements ,
Wage & Hour Division (WHD) ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Investigations
Non-competition agreements are not doing so hot. Recently, more states have outlawed or tightened restrictions on them, and the federal government has stepped into the fray in policing them. For example, the Federal Trade...more
Unions won 95 percent of the elections involving groups of 500 or more workers that occurred in the first half of 2023. Overall, unions won 662 elections during that same period – covering over 58,000 workers, the greatest...more
Attacks on Non-Disclosure, Confidentiality, and Non-Compete Agreements in 2023 -
On several fronts in 2023, we saw federal agencies and entities attacking the scope and enforceability of certain employment agreements,...more
12/21/2023
/ Confidentiality Agreements ,
Employee Rights ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Litigation ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Groff v DeJoy ,
Harassment ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
NLRB ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Non-Disclosure Agreement ,
OSHA ,
Pregnancy ,
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Religious Accommodation ,
SCOTUS ,
State Labor Laws ,
Title VII
With no chance of passing the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, we predicted that the Biden administration would seek to achieve pro-labor reforms through the National Labor Relations Board’s (the “Board”) rulemaking and...more
10/5/2023
/ Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Final Rules ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
State Labor Laws ,
Unions
New Business Reporting Obligations for Employers: Beneficial Ownership Information Under the Corporate Transparency Act -
Effective January 1, 2024, most legal entities incorporated, organized, or registered to do business...more
10/3/2023
/ Beneficial Owner ,
Business Entities ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Intentional Torts ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Minimum Wage ,
New Legislation ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
OSHA ,
Over-Time ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Reporting Requirements ,
State Labor Laws ,
Unions ,
Workplace Safety
As we have often discussed, the National Labor Relations Board under the Biden administration has prioritized expanding employees’ rights under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (the “Act”). Most recently, in GC...more
6/23/2023
/ Antitrust Division ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
NLRB General Counsel ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Proposed Rules ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Section 7
Considerations for Employing AI in the Workplace -
What is workplace artificial intelligence or AI? In its simplest form, AI in the workplace is the use of technology or software to monitor employees’ work performance,...more
6/21/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Confidential Information ,
Discrimination ,
Employee Evaluations ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Harassment ,
Managers ,
New Legislation ,
NLRB General Counsel ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Performance Reviews ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Technology Sector ,
Training ,
Virginia ,
Wage and Hour
In the Apple TV+ show Severance, employees of Lumon Industries may agree to a "severance" program in which non-work memories are separated from work memories. Outside of work, these Lumon Industries employees cannot discuss...more
4/6/2023
/ Confidentiality Policies ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Former Employee ,
Hiring & Firing ,
New Guidance ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Section 7 ,
Severance Agreements