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Oct 16, 2024 | 
hrdailyadvisor.blr.com | Emily Kesler |Baker Donelson |Zachary Busey
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a ruling on August 23, 2024, vacating a 2021 Final Rule of the Department of Labor (DOL) which limited the circumstances under which employers can claim a “tip credit” for “tipped employees” under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
hrdailyadvisor.blr.com | Zachary Busey |Baker Donelson
We have been monitoring and awaiting the Supreme Court’s ruling on (what is known as) the Chevron doctrine. You can read more about the doctrine here. On June 28, the Supreme Court issued its decision and overruled the doctrine, which had been in place for more than four decades. For a number of reasons, this decision has and will continue to make headlines. We will have more to come on its impact, but here are five things employers need to know now.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
today.westlaw.com | Addie Guida |Jeremy Ray |Baker Donelson
(July 03, 2024) - Baker Donelson attorneys Benjamin West Janke, Addie Guida and Jeremy D. Ray speculate over whether the U.S. Supreme Court will endorse a rule that accounts for late discoveries of injuries in copyright disputes. On May 20, 2024, the United States Supreme Court sparked a wave of confusion when it denied certiorari in Hearst Newspapers, L.L.C. v.
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May 30, 2024 | 
hrdailyadvisor.blr.com | Dena Sokolow |Baker Donelson
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has published its final rule amending the overtime regulations of the federal wage and hour law, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The new rule requires an increase to the salary threshold for executive, administrative, and professional workers (EAP) and Highly Compensated Employees (HCE) to qualify for exemption from overtime. Employers must comply with the final rule by July 1, 2024.
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May 15, 2024 | 
today.westlaw.com | P. Lee Smith |Elizabeth Atkinson |Carl Hartley |Baker Donelson
(May 23, 2024) - Thomas Mahoney, Lee Smith, Elizabeth Atkinson and Carl Hartley of Baker Donelson discuss implications of U.S. Department of the Treasury and Department of Energy regulations aimed at electric vehicle production. The Treasury finalized regulations for the Clean Vehicle Credit under I.R.C. Section 30D. These regulations are effective July 5, 2024. The Section 30D credit, up to $7,500, applies to new electric or fuel cell vehicles (EVs).
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May 8, 2024 | 
areadevelopment.com | Tochi Advisors |Michael Johnson |Baker Donelson
Over the last two decades, the amount of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the U.S. has more than doubled from about $1.26 trillion U.S. dollars in 2000 to $5.26 trillion U.S. dollars in 2022. The countries with the greatest amounts of foreign direct investment in the United States to date are Japan, the U.K., and the Netherlands. British, Japanese, and German companies have created the greatest number of direct jobs.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
hrdailyadvisor.blr.com | Donna Glover |Baker Donelson |Kimberly A. Benjamin |Jennifer Carsen
On February 8, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided that an employee who blows the whistle under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) does not need to show that their employer had retaliatory intent to find protection under SOX. In siding with the whistleblower, Trevor Murray, the Court rejected UBS Securities, LLC’s position that a finding of retaliatory intent is required for whistleblower protection under SOX, which governs corporate financial reporting and recordkeeping.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
today.westlaw.com | Edward Lanquist |Jeremy Ray |Baker Donelson
(February 21, 2024) - Baker Donelson attorneys Edward D. Lanquist and Jeremy D. Ray analyze a major dispute involving the use of copyrighted content for machine learning and offer predictions of how that litigation could end. The legal implications of artificial intelligence (AI), specifically generative AI, quickly became a topic of casual conversation following the launch of ChatGPT in November of 2022.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
drudge-report.net | Baker Donelson
The recently released 2023 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report highlights that cyberattacks against the Health Care Sector continue to increase, leading the list of most expensive remediations for the 13th year in a row. Since 2020, the cost of remediation after an attack on health care data increased a staggering 53.3 percent with an average cost of $10.93 million, more than double all sectors but one, the Financial Sector, which decreased from last year while health care increased.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
hrdailyadvisor.blr.com | Cassandra Horton |Baker Donelson |Kimberly A. Benjamin |Jennifer Carsen
On October 26, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published its long-awaited final joint employer rule after initially publishing the revised rule for public comment in September 2022. The rule takes effect on December 26, 2023, and governs how the Board will determine whether two or more employers are considered joint employers under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
