September 9, 2020
Worker Classification Update: California’s A.B. 2257 Expands & Clarifies A.B. 5 Exemptions
On September 4, 2020, Governor Newsom signed A.B. 2257, follow-up legislation to A.B. 5, California’s landmark 2019 law that radically changed the state’s treatment of employees and independent contractors by replacing the longstanding Borello classification test. The new law attempts to clean up many industry-specific provisions that became more apparent after A.B. 5 became law….
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As previously noted, the U.S. Department of Education issued its Final Rule on Title IX on May 15, 2020 with an effective date of August 14, 2020. Many K-12 and post-secondary institutions wondered whether the Final Rule would be applied retroactively. On August 5, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR)…
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As discussed in previous blog posts, on May 6, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced a package of sweeping changes to Title IX (the Final Rule), scheduled to take effect August 14, 2020. Since that announcement, the Final Rule has faced significant criticism, including the following statement by American Council on Education President…
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Further Clarification For Sweeping Title IX Changes to Campus Sexual Harassment Policies
*** UPDATE *** June 26, 2020 – see this post about efforts to delay implementation of the Title IX changes outlined below June 24, 2020 – On May 6, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) released its Final Rule under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which we blogged about here. Since…
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Nearing the end of spring, tens of thousands of undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students and trainees are completing their studies and heading into the job market. Many of these individuals expected to prepare for and take professional licensing examinations (e.g., law, nursing, teaching, medicine). And many may have lined up job offers, and planned to…
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