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This year has yet again been busy for the California Legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom, as they enacted several significant changes to hiring and workforce management, wage and...

Laws protecting whistleblowers generally afford anti-retaliation protections when employees “step out of their role” to report discrimination and dangerous or illegal activity, but not...

It is certainly easy, when writing code to accomplish some data science task, to start taking the data on face value. In my mind, the data can simply become what they claim to be. But i...

On December 1, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a bulletin warning that commonly used website technologies,...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued its Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule (the “final rule”), with most changes becoming effective January...

On November 16, 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Speak Out Act (the “Act”), which President Biden is expected to sign into law. The bipartisan legislation, passed by...

When New York City amended its Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (NYC ESSTA) two years ago to align with New York State’s Paid Sick Leave Law (NYS PSLL) more closely, Big Apple employers...

On October 31, 2022, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) released Memorandum GC 23-02 urging the Board to interpret existing Board law to adopt...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is authorized, pursuant to section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (the “Act”), to address “unfair methods of competition.”

Effective November 16, 2022, non-governmental health care entities must offer eligible employees continued employment for at least four months following a change in control without any ...