Before a horse sale concludes, the seller asks the buyer to sign a written sale contract that includes an “as is” disclaimer. Should the buyer sign the contract? And if the seller.
According to Michigan.gov, Michigan has over 1.2 million drivers that are age 65 and older. By 2025, it is expected that one in five drivers will be 65 and older. This is a trend that.
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As 2021 unfolds, various COVID-19 vaccines have come to market through an expedited approval process. Those presently available are only approved for use on people age 16 or older, but it appears children between the ages of 12 and 15 will soon become eligible. If how we should safely educate children amid a pandemic is subject to sharp political divide, views on the safety and efficacy of child immunization are reliably influenced by those same forces. For parents, the decision is imminent:
Should I consent to my child s COVID-19 vaccination?
While COVID-19 introduced new justifications and concerns, the anti-vax subculture predates the pandemic. Long before 2020, anti-vaxxers have freely formed relationships with others who might not share their vax-related beliefs. Vax-diverse couples may well live in harmony until they have a child and are faced with a decision on the child s vaccination.
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On April 14, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL’s”) Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”) issued its first cybersecurity best practices guidance for retirement plans. The EBSA guidance has been highly anticipated as the frequency and cost of data breaches affecting employee benefit plans continues to rise. The EBSA guidance focuses on actions that plan sponsors, plan fiduciaries, record-keepers, and plan participants can take.
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) imposes certain fiduciary duties on plan fiduciaries with respect to recordkeeping and the selection and monitoring of service providers. As recently as February, 2021 the Government Accountability Office urged the DOL to state whether it is a fiduciary’s responsibility to mitigate cybersecurity risks. Notably, and for the first time, the EBSA best practices guidance states that
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Whenever there is a change in federal administrations, employers must be aware of how various employment laws, rules and regulations will change. One hot topic in employment law, which has seen significant change in recent years, is religious discrimination and accommodation of religious beliefs in the workplace.
This issue is pertinent, not only because of the recent change in administrations, but also because of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) January 2021 revisions to the agency’s Compliance Manual Section on Religious Discrimination, which is the first such update since 2008. While the Compliance Manual does not have the force of law, it does establish how the EEOC analyzes claims of religious discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”), and provides useful guidance to employers.