In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: • Boeing seeks to move 737 Max lawsuits out of US. (NYT) • Kaiser Permanente CEO dies at 60. (Washington Post) • Leading suspect in Mexico corruption case disappears. (Washington Post) • For the...
In this episode I visit with Mike Volkov about the Hoskins verdict, which was announced on Friday, November 8. In it Lawrence Hoskins was found guilty on six counts of violating the FCPA, three counts of money laundering, and two counts of...
The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) administer whistleblower claims under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.... By: Orrick - Global Employment Law Group
The Internal Revenue Service has recently issued final regulations easing requirements for hardship distributions from 401(k) and 403(b) plans. The final regulations reflect a number of statutory changes, including those made under the Bipartisan...
The Seventh Circuit joins the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits in holding that such a refusal would not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act. In Shell v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company, No. 19-1030, the appellate court addressed...
The SEC’s new Regulation Best Interest will require broker-dealers to make account recommendations in their customers’ best interest. In this Bottom Line videocast, Susan Krawczyk and John Walsh discuss: the standard in Regulation Best Interest...
To update my September 5, 2019 post, USCIS has announced a final rule that requires a $10 non-refundable registration fee for each cap-subject H-1B submitted by petitioning employers. USCIS announced that this registration fee will modernize...
On October 17, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register (“Proposed Rule”), modifying the regulations implementing the federal physician self-referral law (the “Stark...
GAO recently issued its annual report to Congress, which provides data concerning protest filings for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. GAO’s annual report confirms a sharp decrease in the number of protests filed. Notably, 2,198 protests were filed in FY...
Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan ruled that the EEOC may not discontinue its pay data collection efforts on November 11, 2019, but rather, must continue its collection efforts until it has collected from at least 98.3% of...
