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While the shift to working from home in 2020 has provided much-needed flexibility for professional workers during the COVID-19 crisis and shown that a remote workforce can maintain productivity, negative aspects of the experience—isolation, diminished collaboration and burnout—have emerged.

A year ago, no one could have imagined the compliance challenges businesses now face in our redefined workplaces. Lawmakers responded with Governor Gavin Newsom signing COVID-19-related bills into law — some that went into effect immediately and others that start […]

There’s nothing worse than paying criminals. And paying a ransom for data is just that—paying criminals for a criminal act. All you get out of the payment is access to your data. It doesn’t fix the vulnerability or the root […]

Retirement plan fiduciaries will be barred from casting corporate-shareholder proxy votes in favor of social or political positions that don’t advance the financial interests of retirement plan participants, under a Department of Labor final rule.

Multinational employers are considering whether they may require or request that employees download a COVID-19 contact-tracing app to their smartphones in order to track employees’ movements and contacts.

A Supreme Court ruling that allows individual states to enact laws regulating pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs’) prices for prescription drugs will require health plans covering employers in multiple states to comply with different drug pricing rules from state to state.

German employment law is complex and subject to various statutory regulations that often are widely unknown to foreign companies planning to hire staff in Germany.

A rule that was blocked in 2016 would have significantly increased the salary threshold for employees to be classified as exempt from overtime pay under federal law, and employers may be wondering if President-elect Joe Biden will revisit the rule.

California’s Attorney General on Monday asked a U.S. Ninth Circuit Court panel to overturn a lower court ruling that halted the enforcement of and invalidated in full AB 51 (Gonzalez; D-San Diego), an anti-arbitration law identified by the California Chamber of Commerce […]

The IRS is raising the fee that health insurers or self-insured health plan sponsors will pay in 2021 to fund the federal Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) trust fund. The annual fee, calculated based on the number of plan enrollees […]