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Title United States: Colorado Criminalizes Restrictive Covenants Colorado is criminalizing violations of Colorado’s noncompete law through Senate Bill 21-271 (“SB 21-271”). SB 21-271 was introduced May 13, 2021, became law on July 6, 2021, and will take effect March 1, 2022. The bill is over 300 pages long, and generally addresses misdemeanor and criminal s...	Author Woods \| Aitken	Date 01 Apr 2022
Title United States: Forced Unionization of Federal Contractors On February 4, 2022, President Biden issued Executive Order 14063 (“EO 14063”). EO 14063 requires U.S. government departments and agencies (“contracting agencies”) to use project labor agreements (“PLAs”) on all federal construction projects with a total estimated cost of $35 million or ...	Author Woods \| Aitken	Date 30 Mar 2022
Title United States: Participant Choice Does Not Relieve ERISA Fiduciaries from Duty of Prudence An ERISA fiduciary must act “with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent man acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims.” 29 U.S.C. § 1104(a)(1...	Author Davenport Evans	Date 29 Mar 2022
Title Australia: Examining the proposed employee share scheme changes Equity ownership is an important tool for Australian businesses, particularly those in their start-up phase or which are cash-poor. Equity ownership though an employee share scheme (ESS) or similar is critical for these businesses to attract and retain top talent – talent that will be the defini...	Author Corrs Chambers Westgarth	Date 28 Mar 2022
Title Australia: Categorising work relationships: Contract rules? In February, the High Court of Australia handed down its decisions in CFMMEU v Personnel Contracting Pty Ltd [2022] HCA 1 (Construct) and in ZG Operations Australia Pty Ltd v Jamsek [2022] HCA 2 (Jamsek). These decisions, together with the Court’s earlier decision in WorkPac Pty Ltd v Rossato�...	Author Corrs Chambers Westgarth	Date 24 Mar 2022
Title United States: Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans Instability in the labor market and growing demand for workers are forcing companies to find new ways to retain current employees and attract prospective hires. Additionally, with many employees being at-will (or otherwise free to leave employment at any time), companies are at a higher risk now tha...	Author Woods \| Aitken	Date 23 Mar 2022
Title United States: Employment Legislation Outlook With new state employment laws continuously being enacted, it can be challenging to keep up on each change and ensure that your policies and practices are compliant. We have your solution. This monthly digest is designed to keep you apprised of upcoming major state law changes in areas including ...	Author Thompson Hine LLP	Date 16 Mar 2022
Title Austria: Residence and Employment of Ukrainian Refugees Even though the pandemic is still not giving us a break and there is also news to report with this regard (such as the workplace-related effects of the suspension of the compulsory vaccination law), this newsletter does not serve as a COVID-19 update. The reason is that we are unfortunately confront...	Author Eisenberger & Herzog	Date 16 Mar 2022