July 21, 2021

Video: Biden Seeks to Boost Competition, HERO Act Guidance, and Key Nominees Advance – Employment Law This Week

By Epstein Becker Green of Epstein Becker & Green

As featured in #WorkforceWednesday:  This week, we focus on President Biden’s recent push to limit non-compete agreements and finalize key labor and employment appointments.

Biden Executive Order Seeks to Boost Competition

President Biden has issued an expansive executive order, which aims to boost competition across the U.S. economy, lower prices for consumers, and increase pay for workers. The order encourages federal action to ban or limit non-compete agreements, reigniting a policy debate which raged at the end of the Obama administration over when and how non-competes can be enforced. Learn more.

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July 21, 2021

WHAT, IN THE NAME OF GOD, …?: Intellectual Property Rights In Holy Names, Sacred Words, & Other Aspects of Creation

By James P. Flynn of Epstein Becker Green

The title of this piece tracks a common “phrase of exasperation used to emphasize a question or statement.”  If that be the case, and I think it is, then the subtitle implies the question this piece will address.  That question is “how have various countries’ intellectual property laws addressed efforts to copyright, trademark, or patent holy names, sacred words, or outputs of creation?”  The title, of course, also is a bit of play on words, as it asks the question more directly “what intellectual property rights are out there that people can acquire ‘in the name of God’?” That can mean rights to the name (or one of the names) itself.  It can also mean as the proxy or substitute holder of rights here on earth because no spiritual being will receive a copyright certificate, trademark registrations, or letters patent.  So a lot is implied in, or possible from, the title (as is often my intent on this blog).

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July 20, 2021

California Employers Will Need to Change How They Calculate Meal and Rest Period Premiums Following California Supreme Court Decision

By Michael (Mike) S. Kun of Epstein Becker & Green

California law generally requires employers to pay non-exempt employees a premium of one hour of pay for non-compliant meal and rest periods. Employers have typically paid such premiums by using the employees’ standard hourly rates. A new California Supreme Court decision requires employers to pay premiums at a higher rate when employees receive nondiscretionary compensation. This change in the law not only will require employers to adjust how they calculate meal and rest period premiums going forward, but it also exposes some of them to litigation for their past practices if they did not previously pay at the higher rates – despite the fact that, before this new decision, they had no reason to believe that premiums should be paid at those higher rates.

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July 20, 2021

DOJ’s Recent Telehealth Enforcement Action Highlights Increased Abuse of COVID-19 Waivers

By Lauren Petrin of Epstein Becker & Green

On May 26, 2021, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced a coordinated law enforcement action against 14 telehealth executives, physicians, marketers, and healthcare business owners for their alleged fraudulent COVID-19 related Medicare claims resulting in over $143 million in false billing.[1] This coordinated effort highlights the increased scrutiny telehealth providers are facing as rapid expansion efforts due to COVID-19 shape industry standards.

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July 20, 2021

RSS Appoints Maro Coric as Chief Client Officer — Insurance

By FSP of Robinson Sheppard Shapiro

July 20, 2021 — RSS is pleased to announce that Maro Coric has been appointed to act as Chief Client Officer. In this role, he will be responsible for the implementation of the firm’s insurance industry-specific business development strategy, and for the Insurance Law Practice Group’s new business opportunities. Maro will be collaborating with the firm’s management team and marketing group.

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July 19, 2021

New changes to the current regime of remote sale of medicinal products

By Lidings Law Firm

From September 1, 2021, amendments to the Rules1 for issuing Permits for the Retail Sale of Medicines for Medical Use by remote Means, the Implementation of such sale and the delivery of medicines to Citizens, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 31.05.2021 N 827 (hereinafter – the Rules), will come into force.

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July 19, 2021

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation clarified that the prohibition of the publication of personal data of a medical worker by an online publication should not violate the users’ right to receive information about the quality of services pro

By Lidings Law Firm

In a Resolution dated May 25, 20211, when examining the complaint of MedReyting LLC, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation clarified the procedure for applying para. 8, part 1, art. 6 of the Federal Law “On Personal Data”2, according to which the processing of personal data is necessary for the professional activity of a journalist and (or) the legitimate activity of the mass media or scientific, literary or other creative activities, provided that the rights and legitimate interests of the subject of personal data are not violated.

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July 16, 2021

Navigating the NIL landscape may have student-athletes in compliance overload

By McDonald Hopkins LLC

Part 2 in the series “The Wild West of name, image, and likeness: Be prepared when the dust settles.” 

The long anticipated National Collegiate Athletic Association policy, which allows college athletes to earn money from their name, image and likeness (NIL) went into effect on July 1. As a result of this game-changing policy, college athletes can be paid for the commercial use of their identity in the form of endorsement deals from companies, monetization of their social media presence, earning money through autographed or licensed products like apparel, sports drinks or video games, making personal appearances, and more. Read more…

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July 16, 2021

Michael O. Fawaz Appointed to the Board of Law Examiners for the State of Michigan

By Howard & Howard

ROYAL OAK, Mich., July 16, 2021 – Howard & Howard attorney Michael O. Fawaz has been nominated by the Michigan Supreme Court to the Board of Law Examiners and appointed to the Board by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

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July 15, 2021

Guayaquil congregates virtually 23.000 corporations of the región to the Business Future of the Americas

By ConsorcioLegal

…BFA 2021, an entrepreneurial event focused in attracting new investments to the región, organized by the Ecuadorian-US Chamber of Commerce of Guayaquil and the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the US, Latin America and the Caribbean (AACCLA). Read more…

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