博客:意见 & 观察
Borrowed Servants on Virginia's Waterfront: A Muddied Predicament for Employers
2018年5月30日
Third party access to waterfront property has become a norm and necessity for most waterfront businesses. Preventing third party access often results in lost business opportunities and profits. 在某些情况下, prevention can result in breach of contract or tortious interferences with business suits brought against the property owner and/or operator. Yet, allowing third party access complicates employment relationships at the worksite and the legal...
Read More二零一八年五月十七日
With summer approaching, employers are hearing from college students looking for internships. In the past, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) made it almost impossible for “for profit” employers to establish unpaid internship programs that did not violate the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). DOL使用了刚性, six-factor test that prohibited employers from gaining an immediate advantage from the intern’s activities, 这严重限制了实习生的发展...
Read MoreMay 01, 2018
《亚洲博彩平台排名》(简称“法案”)于12月22日成为法律, 并影响了美国生活的许多领域. Anyone who is contemplating divorce should understand how the Act treats spousal support payors and payees. For years, the tax code permitted the payor spouse to deduct his or her spousal support from the payor’s taxes. The payee spouse was required to include the support payment in his or her income. 从实际的角度来看，这...
Read More2018年4月24日
以防你错过了, January 1 of this year (2018) ushered in a significant change in the world of limited liability companies and partnerships. Under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”) the existing rules for auditing partnerships were replaced with an entirely new set of rules. In addition, the role of the “tax matters partner” was replaced with that of a “partnership representative”. 这两个变化都是重要的，并影响...
Read More2018年4月5日
《澳门亚洲博彩平台排名》(“FCA”),[i] has been around since 1863 and has been repeatedly amended by Congress. FCA可能导致向政府承担三倍的损害赔偿责任, 加上最高10美元的民事罚款,000, 对于任何明知而提出虚假索赔的人, 或要呈现的原因, 向政府提出虚假或欺诈性的付款要求.[ii] Because a “claim” against the government includes any request for the payment of money, any...
Read MoreDoes Title VII Protect against Employment Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation?
2018年3月21日
Most Americans are aware that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prevents discrimination by employers against employees “because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, 或者国籍.“这是一个备受期待的决定, 第二巡回上诉法院, 它涵盖了东北部的几个州, recently overturned its own precedent and became the second federal appellate court to find that Title VII protects individuals who are...
Read More判决留置权诉. Memorandum of Lien: Two Power Tools in a 社区协会’s Collection Toolkit
2018年2月19日
In Virginia, when a property owner fails to pay assessments to the community association, the association has the option of filing a judgment lien or a memorandum of lien against the owner’s property as a means of securing the debt. The benefit of a lien is that it attaches to the property of the debtor, 哪一项增加了担保债务得到偿还的可能性. A lien will prevent the property owner from selling the property or refinancing...
Read More2018年1月22日
As we begin a new year, many of us look to the future and begin to plan changes in our lives. 不幸的是, for many people the old adage “out with the old and in with the new” involves ending a marriage or other long-term relationship. As with any other major change in life, it is important to plan for a possible divorce or separation. Therefore, as we begin 2018 it might be helpful to review a few tips in planning for an impending divorce.Seek...
Read MoreConsult an Attorney before Making Changes to Employee Compensation to Avoid Violating FLSA
2017年11月13日
An employer in Ohio recently learned that Benjamin Franklin’s advice of “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” can be applied to employee compensation systems. 当新老板接管了布朗德比酒店餐厅, it decided to reclassify restaurant servers as independent contractors. In doing so, 业主实施了“桌子租赁”系统, 亚洲博彩平台排名员没有从餐厅拿工资, 保留了他们所有的小费, but had...
Read MoreVirginia Intrastate Crowdfunding: SEC Amendments Leave Virginia Law Outdated
2017年11月9日
我们很多人都熟悉众筹, particularly reward-based crowdfunding through websites like Kickstarter and Indigogo. Reward-based crowdfunding allows companies to raise money from members of the public in exchange for prizes that vary depending on the amount of money you donate to the company’s project (e.g. $5 gets you a personalized Thank You from the CEO, $15 gets you a company t-shirt, etc.). 这种基于奖励的融资模式也可以...
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