Effective as of January 1, 2020, the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in the fall of 2019, provides certain new protections for residential tenants in the State of California....
It has been several years since the US Supreme Court issued a decision in a case involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). In the upcoming term, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review three ERISA cases. Below is a...
State and local governments are increasingly regulating the workplace. Although it is not possible to discuss all state and local laws, this update provides an overview of recent and upcoming legislative developments to help you ensure that your...
Blank Rome’s annual estate and tax planning newsletter addresses certain concepts and techniques that should be considered in 2020 by our clients and friends in California. Perhaps the most important and troublesome development was the enactment of...
Led by the Center for Biological Diversity, a group of 364 environmental and other non-governmental organizations have filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revise standards applicable to petro-plastics production...
China’s Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) came into force on January 1, 2020, effecting far-reaching changes to the regulatory framework that has governed foreign investment in China for the last 40 years. In many respects, the FIL is very good news...
Good news for the motor carrier industry … for now. A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order that prevents the state of California from enforcing a strict independent contractor misclassification law against motor carriers—that was...
New York’s Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act went into effect on January 1, 2020. Two days earlier, two agricultural business associations filed a challenge to the law in federal court requesting a temporary restraining order (TRO)....
Effective January 1, 2020, employers should be using the revised Form W-4 in the new hire process. Employers may ask current employees to complete a new Form W-4 but the employer must advise the current employees that they are not required to...
New York rang in the new year with a pair of significant labor law developments. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on December 31 that the Department of Labor would end the tip credit for “miscellaneous” industries by the end of 2020, and the following...
