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Last week, the United States Department of Labor ('DOL') published a final rule which redefines the people and organizations who are fiduciaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of [...]

Time to Revamp Your Employee Severance and Release Agreements! On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board ('NLRB') issued a decision that greatly alters the landscape relating to settlement [...]

Since the fall of 2018 Michigan employers have faced the prospect of significant increases in the minimum wage rate and in the amount of paid sick leave they had to [...]

On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its proposed rule to eliminate non-compete agreements on the basis that they unduly suppress employee wages and stifle innovation and [...]

Enter the Rainbow, Part Two: The Michigan Supreme Court protects LGBTQ Rights The end of July 2022 found Michigan's employment landscape clouded over with all kinds of legal and financial [...]

In most cases, a plaintiff seeking an interim or interlocutory injunction is required to give an undertaking as to damages. The purpose of this practice is to ensure that the [...]

Negative reviews posted on websites such as Better Business Bureau, Yelp, Glassdoor, and Facebook can be devastating to companies, and perhaps even fatal to small businesses and sole practitioners who [...]

Byline: Mark Smith, For The New Mexican ALBUQUERQUE -- Sometimes the beginning can also mark the end. uch was the case Saturday night as host Albuquerque La Cueva held Santa [...]

Two recent developments have resurrected wage and salary increases that Michigan employers thought were dead. These developments will force them to be cautious when determining the cost of labor for [...]

Confidence strengthens among Europe's business leaders, with uncertainty decreasing. Outlook improves for revenue growth, hiring and capital spending. Euro area CFOs bolder than non-euro area counterparts. Business leaders across Europe [...]

Ahead of the Autumn Budget on 22 November, Deloitte's public sector and economics teams set out their thoughts on the outlook for public services, the economy, social care, local government [...]

Can a court bind something that knows no bounds? The Supreme Court of Canada did just that recently when it upheld a British Columbia Court of Appeal decision to grant [...]

Introduction In Vancouver Community College v Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) 2017 BCCA 41, the British Columbia Court of Appeal found that Vancouver Community College ('VCC') had established the tort of [...]

In its first decision of 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada addressed the likelihood of successful damages claims against quasi-judicial boards pursuant to s. 24 of the Charter. In a [...]

On November 17, 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada (the 'SCC') released its decision in Royal Bank of Canada v. Trang, 2016 SCC 50. This case involved the proper interpretation [...]

On 25 May 2016 the European Commission tabled a package of measures designed to help businesses and consumers buy and sell products and services online with more ease and greater [...]

As part of a European Union (EU) drive to encourage the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in consumer disputes, the European Commission has developed a new Online Dispute Resolution [...]

On February 18, 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada granted Google leave to appeal the decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in the case of Google Inc. v. [...]

In the words of Ofcom, 'the Consumer Rights Act ('The Act') has been hailed as the biggest shake-up of consumer law for a generation'. The Act, which came into force [...]

On Tuesday October 20, 2015, Bill 38, the Franchises Act, successfully passed third reading. The Government of British Columbia first introduced the bill on October 6, 2015, and it is [...]

On January 27, the British Columbia Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal in Bea v. The Owners Strata Plan, LMS 2138, 2015 BCCA 31, upholding the lower court's decision finding [...]

Byline: Mark W. Smith, Detroit Free Press Security concerns are giving some consumers a reason to hold off on the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, one of the holiday's hottest gadgets. [...]

Byline: Mark W. Smith, Detroit Free Press Early buyers of Amazon's tablet-like e-reader, the Kindle Fire, are beginning to find what many had feared: It's not really a tablet computer [...]

Byline: Mark W. Smith, USA TODAY Somewhere, Steve Jobs is smiling. In a move first reported by ZDNet, Adobe said it no longer plans to develop future versions of its [...]

With a heated property market, there's more and more focus on closing deals without being gazumped, and many off-market transactions. Confidentiality agreements are often a feature of such a deal. [...]

Longevity annuities are contracts that provide life annuity payments typically commencing at age 80 or 85; in many (but not all) cases, that is the only benefit the contract provides. [...]

ONE consequence of the high cost of medical care in the United States has been the rise of medical tourism. Every year, thousands of Americans undergo surgery in other countries […]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- In his latest push for an open dialogue with the Muslim world, President Obama on Wednesday sought the counsel of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and [...]

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- President Obama offered a spirit of cooperation to America's hemispheric neighbors at a summit Saturday, listening to complaints about past U.S. meddling and even reaching out to [...]

PERSONAL VIEW The client-supplier relationship needs more managing than many people realise, writes Mark Smith Much has been written about outsourcing and C-level executives who have not made contact with [...]

Fleeting encounter will be treasured Although very saddened by the news ('Tragic loss on first day of school,' AJC Gwinnett News, Aug. 17), I was very grateful you had written [...]

A major challenge to trade show exhibitors is creating a strategy for collecting leads, fulfilling information requests, managing the sales force's attention to the lead and tracking how effective trade [...]

From Mr Mark Smith. Sir, You rightly draw attention to the fact that the entertainment industry is taking extensive measures to protect its products ('Piracy: overkill gives way to pragmatism', [...]

The demise of traditional advertising revenues is very much upon us (CB 13 January). However, this news will come as no surprise to broadcast industry insiders, who have been tracking [...]

The UK Department of Social Security's massive computerization of operations in Glasgow, Scotland, serves as an evaluation study of the ability of training programs to complete a feedback cycle. The framework for evaluation centered on the training sessions, the trainees' acquired knowledge and skills, the formal and informal interactions between trainees, course management, and the objectives set out for the program itself and personally by managers. Data gathered through questionnaires, observation, tutor reports, interviews and implementation control data showed that stakeholders had varying interests, thus confirming the importance of using varied information sources in order to gain a wide perspective of stakeholder views and carrying out the processing of data in a swift manner to prevent the tendency for decisions to be made based on informal evaluations.

In response to Martha Burk and the women's organizations' position on the membership of Augusta National Golf Club, as a woman I am embarrassed that NCWO has chosen such a [...]