On July 31, 2014, President Obama signed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order (“Order”), which would require certain prospective federal contractors to disclose labor law violations and would give agencies more guidance on how to consider labor violations when awarding federal contracts. You can access the newsletter article […]
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The Under-Used Effective Financing Statement — Protection Against Unauthorized Sales of Farm Products
As the farm economy tightens, the chances increase that your farm borrower may sell his or her grain without paying you the proceeds. Your borrower might have several reasons for doing so, but none of them are sufficient. For example, farmers may want to pay their input providers first, or […]
Lucrative Kickback Scheme Earns Hospital Administrators Decades Long Prison Sentences
Twelve Presidential elections will have come and gone if Earnest Gibson III, a longtime hospital CEO, serves his entire prison sentence for violations of the Medicare anti-kickback statute. Gibson III, the longtime CEO of Houston-based Riverside General Hospital, was sentenced in June 2015 by the United States District Court for […]
United States Department of Labor Proposed Rule Will Extend Overtime Protection to Nearly 5 Million Americans with White Collar Jobs
The United States Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) has proposed a rule that will significantly increase the number of employees who are entitled to overtime protection under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The FLSA requires employers to pay employees at an overtime rate, i.e. one and a half times their […]
Supreme Court’s Long-Awaited Decision on Affordable Care Act Means Business as Usual for Employers
On June 25th, 2015, the United States Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited opinion in the case of King v. Burwell, ruling that the individual tax credits provided for under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) to assist individuals in obtaining affordable health coverage on an exchange will continue to be […]