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2024 Construction Outlook

Throughout the past few years, the construction industry has been plagued with myriad issues, including supply chain constraints, labor shortages and material procurement problems, among others.
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An insidious and underreported aspect of the tax legislation winding its way through Congress this week is a provision that likely will meaningfully and negatively impact private equity transactions, the after-tax results of entrepreneurial activities, and other public and private business transactions.
Gerard Fellows
Partner
Chair, Tax Compliance Practice
Genetic modification is a process used for a myriad of purposes, including the cultivation of plant species that ultimately find their way into countless food products across the world.
In a groundbreaking decision, the federal appellate court in Chicago has held that employers are not required under the Americans with Disabilities Act(ADA) to provide an employee with a long-term medical leave of absence after the employee has exhausted all of his or her leave under the Family and MedicalLeave Act (FMLA).
David Michael
Managing Partner
Chair, Human Resources and Employment Law Practice

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has announced an immediate stay and review of an Obama-era policy requiring pay information to be included on form EEO-1. The revised form was set to take effect with the next filing cycle in March 2018.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has always required companies to report data on the race and gender of their employees, but this impending new rule expanded that requirement to provide wage and hour data for the employer’s entire workforce, divided into 12 separate pay bands designated by the EEOC. The policy was applicable to private employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees. By collecting data to identify patterns of pay discrimination across industries and occupations, the Obama administration had hoped the policy would help close the wage gap and ensure equal pay among all groups of people.

Mark Brookstein
Partner
Remember last November when a federal judge put a temporary hold on significant changes to federal labor laws affecting millions of workers and their employers?
Mark Brookstein
Partner
Two new local ordinances requiring employers in Cook County or Chicago to provide paid sick leave take effect on July 1, 2017.
David Michael
Managing Partner
Chair, Human Resources and Employment Law Practice
Eric Sparks examines freedom of contract and the rule of law in the jurisprudence of merits-based review of arbitration awards in construction matters.
Eric Sparks
Partner
Chair, Litigation Practice
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (in Chicago) ruled on April 4, 2017, that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – which prohibitsworkplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin – includes discrimination based upon an employee’s sexual orientation.
Mark Brookstein
Partner

Matthew Olins authored authored an article entitled Sales Under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code in Volume 31 of the AIRA Journal.
 

Matthew Olins
Partner
Chair, Business Reorganization and Creditors’ Rights Practice
When preparing for an archeological dig, New Hampshire state archeologist Richard Boisvert once succinctly stated: “If we knew what was there, we wouldn’thave to dig.”
Richard Reizen
Partner
Chair, Construction Practice
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