The Home Office has introduced a new automated renewal of Tier 2 (General) and Tier 2 (Intra-Company Transfer) Certificate of Sponsorship annual allocations. All Tier 2 unrestricted Certificate of Sponsorship allocations are subject to a fixed...
If an employer unintentionally fails to comply with the qualification requirements of the Internal Revenue Code with respect to its qualified plan, the employer may be able to avoid disqualification of the retirement plan if the failure is corrected...
Idaho's gay marriage ban was struck down Tuesday by a federal judge who declined to put her ruling on hold pending an appeal. U.S. District Magistrate Judge Candy Dale struck down the Gem State's same-sex marriage ban in a case entitled Latta v. Otter. And in a surprising twist, Judge......
I. FLORIDA STATE CASES - SARA WITMEYER - - Jurisdiction: where court never entered order authorizing individual to intervene and individual never became party to litigation, court had no personal jurisdiction to adjudicate individual’s claims to...
The first law in the country requiring cellphones and computerized tablets to come equipped with a so-called kill switch to deter theft was signed Wednesday by the governor of Minnesota.
On May 7, 2014, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a long-awaited final rule in response to President Obama’s Executive Order (EO) 13563, “Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review,” which set as its goal reduction of...
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has produced a resource guide, Strategies for Community Banks to Develop Partnerships with Community Development Financial Institutions, to inform institutions of strategies to meet community credit...
Executive Summary: On May 1, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued an order finding that Piedmont Gardens, a retirement community, violated § 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it implemented and enforced a...
The 2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) was released on April 22, providing the deep empirical analysis of cybersecurity incidents we’ve come to expect from this annual report. The primary messages of this year’s DBIR are the...
Legislation to restrict employers' access to applicants' and employees' personal online content continues its rapid expansion in 2014. Three weeks after Wisconsin became the 13th state to adopt its own social media password protection law, on April...
