Lexology PRO | Canada, China, European Union, etc. | 5 Feb 2024
UPS to cut 12,000 jobs, UK government ponders reintroducing employment tribunal fees, and Finnish workers strike against labour reforms – plus other key updates.
Lexology PRO | Asia-Pacific, Australia, Canada, etc. | 30 Oct 2023
UAW reaches a tentative deal with Ford following strikes, the UK DWP expands its new welfare scheme, and the EU adopts a new directive on asbestos exposure – plus other key updates.
Lexology PRO | Australia | 19 Jul 2021
A trade association that represents the Australian red meat industry has complained to the country’s competition authority that Bank Australia and an animal protection organisation have banded together to refuse financial services to red meat and livestock companies.
Lexology PRO | European Union, Germany, OECD, etc. | 14 Jun 2021
The UK’s chief competition economist has rejected an assertion from a Facebook official that proposed regulation of digital platforms in Europe could decrease consumer welfare.
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP | USA | 9 Apr 2019
United Behavioral Health (“UBH”), a subsidiary of UnitedHealth, administers mental health and substance use disorder benefits for welfare benefit…
Dickinson Wright | USA | 5 Apr 2019
One common response we hear from employers when asked to provide a copy of their health or other welfare plan summary plan description (“SPD”), is…
King & Spalding LLP | USA | 28 Mar 2019
The U.S. Department of Labor (the "DOL") issued an Information Letter on December 8, 2018 (the “Letter”) confirming that state laws requiring written…
William Fry | European Union, Ireland, United Kingdom | 12 Mar 2019
On 1 February 2019, the Irish and UK governments signed the Convention on Social Security between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great…
Squire Patton Boggs | USA | 10 Mar 2019
On January 17, 2019, New Jersey’s governor and state legislators agreed to a deal that will raise the State’s minimum wage to $15.00 by 2024. The…
Seyfarth Shaw LLP | USA | 5 Mar 2019
Seyfarth Synopsis: Over the last several years, the law governing disputes on lifetime retiree health benefits in the Sixth Circuit has had many…