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Remember last January and the salary threshold change the Department of Labor rolled out for salaried exempt and highly compensated employees under the FLSA? As the end of the year approaches, you might need to revisit the DOL’s salary threshold increases that took effect January 1, 2020. In January, we anticipated that this would be one of the more consequential developments of 2020 in the employment sphere, but as you know, a pandemic arrived, and we were wrong. Since January feels like it was five years ago rather than 12 months, here is your refresher on the salary threshold increases and steps you should take now if you want to try to maintain an employee’s exemption but his or her pay falls short of the threshold.
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California voters signaled that privacy is a top priority by overwhelmingly approving Proposition 24 on Nov. 3, 2020 the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). The CPRA amends and significantly strengthens the recently enacted California Consumer Privacy Act and moves California s privacy laws toward those of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
CPRA aims to place consumers “on a more equal footing when negotiating with businesses in order to protect their rights” by adding unprecedented consumer rights to those already afforded under CCPA. CPRA also specifically targets business practices that involve internet advertising, collection and use of sensitive personal information or children s data, and automated decision- making technologies.
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In August, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service issued final regulations on the deductibility of payments of cash or in-kind donations to certain tax-exempt organizations if the donor receives in return some form of consideration,
e.g., state or local tax credits. The regulations are now effective but can be applied
retroactively as well, if the taxpayer so elects, to “qualifying payments” made on or after January 1, 2018. The final regulations offered both good news and bad news for Alabama taxpayers and Alabama Scholarship-Granting Organizations (SGOs).
12 and Wyoming
13. In some of these states, a business owner including a landlord is immune from civil liability as long as the owner attempted in good faith to comply with guidance from public health agencies: Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Oklahoma and Wyoming. In these states, the owner will have the burden of proving that it attempted to comply with public health guidance. In most of the twelve states, the owner is immune from civil liability as long as the owner did not act with willful misconduct or gross negligence: Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming. In these states, the claimants will have the burden to prove that the owner acted with willful misconduct or gross negligence.
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All eyes were on health care in 2020, as the industry faced unprecedented challenges presented by the global coronavirus pandemic.
Stories and images of overburdened frontline health care workers dominated the news cycle for most of the year, and the rapid development of one or more seemingly effective vaccines has engendered a cautious optimism for a return to normalcy in 2021.
Along the way, the health care industry was at the center of a bevy of major governmental antitrust enforcement actions and private antitrust lawsuits that may have a lasting impact on market participants and health care consumers alike. We mercifully close the books on 2020 by addressing this year s major developments in health care antitrust and forecast what lies ahead in 2021.