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On March 19, 2025, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued guidance clarifying how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives intersect with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. This guidance provides critical…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has issued an interim final rule that would exempt U.S. companies and U.S. persons from reporting their beneficial ownership information (“BOI”) as part of the Corporate Transparency Act’s reporting requirements. Under the new proposed…

As the new year continues, it is useful to review your practice’s processes and policies to ensure that the practice operates with efficiency and remains compliant with ever-changing healthcare regulations. In this second installment of a two-part series, we propose…

Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”) and Michigan’s Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act (“IWOWA”) become effective today, February 21, 2025. Last minute bills, passed earlier this week and just before midnight last night, substantively amended both ESTA and IWOWA. The…

A Texas federal judge has ordered a stay of a nationwide injunction that placed the Corporate Transparency Act’s (“CTA”) filing requirements on hold. As a result, the CTA’s reporting requirements are back in effect. FinCEN has announced that it will…

As the new year begins, it is useful to review your practice’s processes and policies to ensure that the practice operates with efficiency and remains compliant with ever-changing healthcare regulations. In this first installment of a two-part series, we propose…

The Michigan Supreme Court released an opinion yesterday holding that a municipality may not disguise a tax by imposing a utilities franchise fee upon consumers through a utilities franchise agreement when that agreement causes the utility to simply act as…

On January 13, 2025, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation (Michigan House Bill No. 5100) establishing a research and development tax credit (the “Michigan R&D Tax Credit”) in Michigan effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.…

Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”) will become effective on February 21, 2025.  Last minute bills have been introduced by both the House and Senate, designed to address serious issues ESTA presents to Michigan employers. On Wednesday, January 8, 2025,…

On December 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated its earlier stay of the injunction suspending the reporting deadlines for the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”). The court had previously ruled on December 23 that the injunction would…

The federal Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit entered an order on December 23, 2024 reinstating the Corporate Transparency Act’s (“CTA”) year-end filing deadline. Earlier this month, a federal judge in Texas ordered a preliminary injunction suspending the CTA’s…

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule regulations have been updated to impose additional requirements on covered entities to safeguard the privacy of reproductive health related protected health information (“PHI”). The disclosure of PHI related…

On December 9, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) adopted new rules under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) banning certain uses of trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE). Most uses of TCE will be banned by December of…

Since the 1940’s, the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”) has held the position that mandatory meetings with employees where the employer expresses its views on unions, typically referred to as “Captive Audience Meetings,” were permitted other than during the…

A federal court in Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on December 3, 2024 that puts enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) on hold. The CTA requires many companies, in particular small businesses, to report certain beneficial ownership information…

The Michigan Court of Appeals recently provided clarification related to a municipality’s grant or denial of special land use permit applications. The case highlights the care municipal bodies must take to document their findings in support of an approval or…

On October 14th, The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) announced that the number of union organizing petitions filed from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024, more than doubled from the same period in 2021.  Petitions were up nearly 30%…

On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a new rule that fashioned a two-part increase to the salary threshold for exempt workers with effective dates of July 1, 2024 and January 1, 2025. In an unsurprising decision…

Although they are currently still in the minority, a growing number of states are enacting or proposing legislation that requires applicable parties to provide notice of pending health care transactions. With its recently effective law, the Indiana General Assembly explained…

The recent Federal Circuit case of Celanese International Corp. v. International Trade Commission serves as a significant reminder of the importance of the on-sale bar in U.S. patent law. Patent owners must be vigilant in their pre-filing activities, carefully considering…

In an opinion released for publication on Tuesday, September 3, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that voter-initiated charter amendments are not a permissible method of implementing the limited local regulations that are authorized by the Michigan Regulation and…

In a widely anticipated ruling, Judge Ada E. Brown of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas sided with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a Texas-based tax firm to block the FTC’s Final Rule banning…

The Michigan Supreme Court has just issued a decision that eliminates the tip credit, raises the minimum wage, and expands paid leave. The decision rescinds the 2018 “Adopt-and-Amend” action by the Legislature and reinstates the 2018 citizens’ initiative for paid sick…

On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, overruled the long-standing “Chevron doctrine,” under which courts were required to defer to “permissible” agency interpretations of the statutes those agencies administer, even if a reviewing…

The Michigan Supreme Court’s recent ruling in the case of Miller v. Department of Corrections expands the scope of retaliation claims under the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA). This decision could have important implications for employers regarding disciplinary actions. The…