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These amendments will change the way resource authority holders take or interfere with surface and underground water.
Companies are choosing to make their patents freely available to the public, to provide inspiration to future inventors.
The alert includes links to recent budget papers, judgments, legislation, reports and media releases relating to health.
Ontario's recently-proposed budget bill would amend the Securities Act to tighten up provisions respecting insider trading.
The Department of Merchant Shipping recently announced that it has amended the form for declaration by a legal representative or auditor of a company adopting the tonnage tax system that the company concerned was tax resident in Cyprus for the relevant year.
A discussion on the latest developments in implementation of the new cookie consent rule across Europe.
In September last year, the Royal Court of Jersey handed down what is now widely considered to be a landmark decision in Jersey trust law.
The European Commission has recently published for consultation the first draft of a revised General Block Exemption Regulation on State aid matters.
The Court of Appeal has recently overturned a decision of the High Court that two of Apple's iPhone-related patents were invalid.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently held a public meeting that addressed the interaction between employer-sponsored wellness programs and federal equal employment opportunity statutes enforced by the EEOC.
A discussion on why government contractors will want to review their teaming agreements following the recent decision in Cyberlock Consulting, Inc. v. Info. Experts, Inc..
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that a shareholder-director of a closely held family corporation was not an "employee" under Title VII, and therefore could not sue for discrimination.
A jury recently slammed Henry’s Turkey Service for $240,000,000, for exploiting intellectually disabled workers by, among other things, paying them only $65 dollars per month eviscerating turkeys on an assembly line.
On March 3, 2013, voters in Switzerland approved a referendum providing one of the world’s most onerous restrictions regarding executive compensation.
May 28th marks the anniversary of the effective date for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first bill signed into law by President Obama.
The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 was adopted by the International Labor Organization at the 94th Maritime Session of the International Labour Convention on February 7, 2006, and will enter into force on August 20, 2013.
When the House and Senate have not agreed to a budget resolution, they may "deem" legislation to act as a budget resolution in order to move forward with the budget and appropriations process.
The House Appropriations Committee will start marking up the first fiscal year 2014 appropriations bill.
The D.C. Circuit recently vacated a National Labor Relations Board rule that would require most private sector employers to display a poster informing employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act, including their right to unionize.
In a recent case, a unanimous Supreme Court held that under the doctrine of patent exhaustion,the authorized sale of a patented article only gives the purchaser or any subsequent owner of the patented article the right to use or resell that article.
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This may be the final year that the so-called Bush tax cuts remain in effect, unless Congress acts to further extend them.
Service tax was initially introduced in the year 1994, when service tax was made applicable on only three services.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have issued a new and revised Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9.
Two recent political deals at both the state and municipal level will increase employer costs and burdens.
The first major immigration proposal in several years contains sweeping changes, with the president potentially signing a version by mid-June.
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This case is the latest decision to expand the meaning of "consequential loss" beyond the narrow English definition.
To amount to a "genuine redundancy" for the purposes of the unfair dismissal exemption, three boxes must be ticked.
