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Arbitration Agreements/Employee Handbooks – Update Yours

Arbitration Agreements/Employee Handbooks – Update Yours A new case (Ford v. The Silver F, Inc.) highlights how California employee handbooks with outdated arbitration language can undermine an employer's ability to require arbitration of employee claims, even when the legal landscape shifted in the employer’s favor in 2022 with the U.S....

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Changes to Form I-9 and E-Verify Updates – Better Check Them

Changes to Form I-9 and E-Verify Updates – Better Check Them U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services made minor changes to Form I-9 - Employment Eligibility Verification, which now matches the statutory language, and updated the DHS Privacy Notice.  The January 20, 2025 I-9 that it revised now expires May 31,...

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Another Corporate Transparency Act Update

Another Corporate Transparency Act Update: Whipsaw: On March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued another “interim final” rule removing the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information (“BOI”) to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”). Now only foreign companies (not U.S....

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Tariffs: Mitigating Effects

Tariffs: Mitigating Effects Tariffs on certain U.S. trading partners likely hits the bottom line for importers and manufacturers.  Those new tariffs range from 10% to 25% and include products from China, Mexico, Canada, UK, European Union and likely others to come, including Chinese-owned factories wherever situated. Proposals are also pending...

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Commercial Landlords Update

Commercial Landlords Update: Unlawful detainers (“evictions” or UDs”), even for commercial landlords require meticulous adherence to statutes and new regulations.  For one landlord in a new case decided January 13th, Baca v. Kuang[1], this was a painful lesson.  The landlord served a 30-day notice to terminate a commercial lease and...

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Corporate Transparence Act Update — Again

Corporate Transparence Act Update --- Again As of Tuesday February 18th, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in the case of Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury ruled that the filing requirements for the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) information about beneficial ownership information (“BOI”) are once...

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2025 IRS Mileage

2025 IRS Mileage On December 19, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service issued its annual notice[1] of the 2025 standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, moving, and charitable purposes.  For employers, that is, the mileage that employers should pay employees for business...

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Employers – I-9 Raids and Audits in 2025

Employers – I-9 Raids and Audits in 2025 Donald Trump promised that upon his return to the Oval Office as president, he would reshape U.S. immigration policies, which would include those related to employment.  Increased Form I-9 audits are on the top of the list.  ICE typically conducts the audits...

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