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Employers faced another challenging year in 2021, attempting to keep up with constantly changing regulations and laws addressing the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, while still facing traditional legal issues such as discrimination and worker classification. Below is a review of five of the biggest developments in employment law over the past year. Political landscape changes. The introductio...

US importers should participate in the Task Force's comment and hearing process to flag due diligence challenges and formulate the strategy to enforce the import prohibitions. What to Know - Effective June 21, 2022, 180 days after enactment of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), a rebuttable presumption will apply that goods produced in whole or part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonom...

SANTA FE, N.M. – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed New Mexico's updated state Senate district map into law Thursday. The map was crafted and approved by the state Legislature, based on 2020 Census data. It was sponsored by Democrat Sens. Linda Lopez and Daniel Ivey-Soto.

The Italian Official Gazette Dec. 31, 2021, published Law No. 234, implementing the 2022-24 state budget. The law includes measures: 1) extending deductions until Dec. 31, 2024, for expenses incurred to improve energy efficiency; 2) extending tax credits for R&D expenses until Dec. 31, 2031; 3) providing tax exemptions for workers due to the coronavirus pandemic; 4) allowing tax credits f...

Effective January 1, 2022, new rules under the Medicare physician self-referral law (the Stark Law) came into effect regarding profit allocations for a group practice. These rules are part of a series of revisions intended to reduce regulatory burden and dismantle barriers to value-based care, while protecting the integrity of the Medicare program. Other aspects of these reforms went into eff...

Holcomb: Emergency powers law is a constitutional amendment, requires vote  Indiana Lawyer

A coalition of Georgia voting rights groups says President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris should skip traveling to Atlanta next week unless they come with a concrete plan to pass federal voting laws immediately. The statement was signed by the Black Voters Matter Fund, the Asian American Advocacy Fund, the New Georgia Project Action Fund and the GALEO Impact Action Fund, an organi...

Michael Best & Friedrich lobby Credit: Jake Hill Milwaukee-based law firm Michael Best announced that it has acquired North Carolina law firm Forrest Firm. The deal adds 23 lawyers and 13 professionals to Michael Best, which will now have more than 60 legal… Want to Read More? Paid BizTimes subscribers get unlimited access to all Insider content and much more. Learn more in our Insider FA...

Rep. Bob McDermott, a Marine officer who served in the Gulf War, will not seek reelection to his District 40 seat (Ewa, Ewa Beach, Ewa By Gentry, Iroquois Point) this year. But his 30-year-old daughter-in-law has filed to run for the seat, also as a Republican. Kayla Ramos McDermott. “I want to run as a way to give back to my community, because I lived and grew up in Ewa,” said Kayla Ramos Mc...

NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Moore Kuehn, PLLC, a law firm focusing in securities litigation located on Wall Street in downtown New York City, is investigating potential claims concerning whether the following proposed mergers are fair to shareholders. Moore Kuehn may seek increased consideration, additional disclosures, or other relief on behalf of the shareholders of these compani...