Excerpted from an Shumaker Loop & Kendrick blog by Erin Smith Aebel and Amy Maguire On December 12, 2018, President Trump signed the Farm Bill removing hemp from the list of controlled substances and making it federally legal to grow and...
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Excerpted from a KATU-2 TV story by Joe Douglass At public schools, teachers and other staff members must undergo criminal background checks. But that’s not the case for private schools and academies in Oregon. After a piano teacher was...
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Excerpted from The Morning Call story by Anthony Salamone Energy supplier Vista Energy Marketing faces a record fine for hiring door-to-door salespeople without criminal background checks in a case stemming from a Bucks County rape in...
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Excerpted from a Katz Marshall & Banks LLP blog by Matthew LaGarde The Fourth Circuit issued an important decision in February, holding that spreading rumors a female subordinate slept with a male superior to obtain promotions could...
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Excerpted from a Stars and Stripes story by Dan Lamothe A Pentagon program designed to screen potential recruits with foreign ties, including green-card holders and some U.S. citizens, has prompted questions from military officials about whether...
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Excerpted from a Reuters blog by Pete Schroeder The nation’s major credit reporting agencies faced renewed scrutiny from Congress last week, as lawmakers consider legislation overhauling the industry. Top executives from the three major credit...
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Excerpted from a Fasken blog by Gesta Abols and Matthew Downer If the Hillary Clinton email scandal wasn’t a clear enough lesson that one should not conduct official work using personal electronic communication tools (be it email or texts)...
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A new research study released this month by Case Western Reserve University reports the “Ban the Box” movement has improved employment opportunities for former prisoners. The Ban the Box practice, allowing the removal of the application box...
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Excerpted from a Denver Post story by Sam Tabachnik Starting Saturday, thousands of Denverites who were convicted of low-level marijuana offenses prior to legalization can begin the process to get those wiped off their record. The “Turn Over a...
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Excerpted from an Epstein Becker Green blog and video by Adam Forman and Nathaniel Glasser Click here to watch the video. This Employment Law This Week Deep Dive episode looks at the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in human resources (HR)...
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Excerpted from a FisherBroyles LLP blog by Richard B. Cohen A great article was posted last year in The New York Times, entitled “Why Are Black People Still Punished for Their Hair?” by Ría Tabacco Mar. It had as a sub-heading: “Only black people...
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Excerpted from an akerman blog by Ashley N. Arnett Employers must walk a tightrope when dealing with an employee or applicant seeking a religious accommodation as demonstrated by two recent court cases with opposite results. In one case, a...
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