The OFCCP is picking up speed with a variety of updates this fall. The following reflects the most noteworthy of the OFCCP’s activity. TRICARE Jurisdiction? Good News on the Horizon! Healthcare employers who receive TRICARE dollars have long suffered through the back and forth about whether or not their TRICARE […]
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DOL Finalizes Salary Threshold for White Collar Exemptions—Are You Ready?
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After years of anticipation, analysis, and revision, on September 24, 2019, the Department of Labor announced the final rule modifying the salary threshold for the white collar (executive, administrative, and professional) and highly compensated employee exemptions. Under the current rule, which has been in place since 2004, to be considered […]
California Passes Fair Pay to Play Act, Allowing College Student Athletes to Profit from Their Likeness
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On September 30, 2019, California adopted the Fair Pay to Play Act, which will grant student athletes at California-based universities and colleges to profit off of their likeness and to hire agents to help them do so. Prior to the Fair Pay to Play Act, student athletes at California institutions […]
A Victory for Trademark Licensees in Bankruptcy—Supreme Court’s Ruling in Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC
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In what some are calling a landmark opinion, the United States Supreme Court held that a bankrupt licensor cannot terminate the rights of its licensees to utilize its trademark. Mission Prod. Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC, 139 S. Ct. 1652 (2019). When an individual or an entity files for bankruptcy, […]
Federal Privacy Law Update: is “Mind Your Own Privacy” the Frankenstein’s Monster of Proposed Federal Privacy Legislation?
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The latest move in the ever-changing privacy regulation landscape introduces a new and much more serious consequence to the conversation: criminalization of lies told to the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) by senior executives of tech companies. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) shared his official version of his “Mind Your Own Privacy” […]
