Client Alerts

The AFL-CIO has filed the first labor rights petition under the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) claiming that Mexican company Tridonex, located in the border town of Matamoros has blocked free union elections guaranteed under the USMCA labor provisions.

Over the past year, over 1,300 lawsuits have been filed by insurance carriers and policyholders over the question of whether property policies cover losses incurred by businesses that suffered business interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Wednesday May 5th, the Department of Labor (DOL) officially revoked a Trump-era rule that had it gone into effect would have created a new independent contractor test.

On Friday April 30, 2021, President Biden issued a Presidential Proclamation suspending the entry to the U.S. in response to the rise of COVID-19 cases in the Republic of India.

LG Chem and SK Innovation (“SK”) are world-leading designers and providers of battery technology used in the highly competitive automobile marketplace. 

On April 27, 2021, Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced that the REAL ID full-enforcement deadline that was initially scheduled to take effect on October 1, 2021 has been extended to May 3, 2023

The Small Business Administration has announced that applications for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (the “Fund”) will open Monday May 3.

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation has released a Federal Funding Opportunity (FFO) for its Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program (DMCSP).

Surveys indicate that people often trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations. 

For many years, group health plans have been subject to strict privacy and security requirements, but up to now, privacy and security for retirement plans has been left to the vagaries of the plan service providers and their auditing systems.

Ford Motor Company issued new Terms of Purchase, that become effective on July 1, 2021 for all Purchase Orders issued on or after that date.  This is the first extensive change in Ford’s Terms since 2004.  Butzel Long has prepared an analysis of the changes in the new Terms, which is linked at the end of this Alert.

Metal-finishers typically plate or coat a customer’s metal parts with a finish, (e.g., nickel) for a per unit fee. 

A recent opinion of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan provided a reminder of the limits of preemption under the Michigan Uniform Trade Secret Act (“MUTSA”).

On April 5, 2021, Mexico’s Secretary of Labor published a press release announcing it had reached an agreement with the business sector, employees’ unions, and the members of Mexican congress relating to outsourcing changes to Mexico’s Federal Labor Law.

Is it possible that you own trade secrets, without even knowing it? 

In its recent decision in Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the question of when a party’s activities in a state will allow it to be sued in that state or, in legalese, when do a state’s courts have in personam personal jurisdiction over a corporation. 

On February 25, 2021, the Michigan Court of Appeals held in Young v VanderMeer[i] that a majority or equal shareholder has standing to pursue shareholder oppression claims under MCL 450.1489 so long as the defendant was in control of the company at the time oppression occurred.

On Saturday, March 27, 2021, President Biden signed into law the Covid-19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension Act Relief Extension Act (the “Act”).

As COVID-19 cases in Michigan are on the rise, employers face questions about when employees need to quarantine or isolate and for how long.

As we previously reported in our “End of LIBOR – Part 1”, for several years US banking regulators have been preparing for the replacement of LIBOR as a lending index rate.