Thursday, April 1, 2021
In response to public demands for greater equity and inclusion in the workplace, on March 23, 2021, Governor J.B. Pritzker approved extensive changes to the Illinois Humans Rights Act, the Illinois Equal Pay Act and the Business Corporation Act. The measures place new limits on employers’ use of conviction records when making employment decisions. They also require larger employers to obtain an “equal pay registration certificate” and submit diversity data to the State for publication. Illinois employers must act quickly to comply with the new conviction record requirements, and larger employers should begin preparing now for the new reporting requirements. Below are some key takeaways for employers regarding these sweeping new measures.
Thursday, April 1, 2021
On March 26, 2021, the FDA updated and reissued the fee rates for the newly created over-the-counter (OTC) monograph Drug User Fee program (OMFUA) for FY2021 in a Federal Register Notice (FRN) titled “
Fee Rates under the Over-The-Counter Monograph Drug User Fee Program for Fiscal Year 2021.” The CARES Act, passed by Congress on March 27, 2020, established OMUFA, FDA’s newest user fee program, which granted FDA the ability to assess and collect two types of fees: OTC monograph drug facility (MDF) fees and OTC Monograph Order Request (OMOR) fees.
The initial notice issued by FDA on December 29, 2020, was quickly withdrawn by the HSS amid controversy surrounding FDA’s plan to collect user fees from manufacturers, including liquor distilleries, that stepped up to meet the US (and world) demand for increased production of hand sanitizers under the Agency’s temporary enforcement policy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thursday, April 1, 2021
The Fourth Money Laundering Directive ((EU) 2015/849) (MLD4) was implemented in the United Kingdom as a result of The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulation 2017 (SI 2017/692). In order to fulfil the requirements of MLD4, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) introduced the Trust Registration Service (TRS) to help combat money laundering and terrorist financing in the United Kingdom. Because of further European Directives, the TRS has now been extended with wide-reaching consequences. Read on for a discussion of who is affected and key implications.
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What Is the Trust Registration Service?
The TRS is an online portal which provides certain trustees and personal representatives with a relatively user-friendly way to satisfy their registration obligations with HMRC. Under MLD4, only specified express trusts with UK tax consequences or “complex estates” needed to be registered. However, th
Thursday, April 1, 2021
On March 29, 2021, Governor DeSantis signed into law CS/SB 72, a sweeping and powerful new COVID-19-related claim immunity shield. The Act, “Civil Liability for Damages Relating to COVID-19,” provides several powerful protections in a new statute (section 768.38, Florida Statutes) for businesses, educational institutions, governmental entities, and religious institutions, and separately (section 768.381, Florida Statutes) for health care providers. The new law became effective upon the Governor’s signature. Although COVID-19-related claims have been few – less than a dozen known as of the enactment – the new law aims to dissuade those potential claimants who may be waiting in the wings.
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