Louisiana Oil & Gas Law

With the 2023 Louisiana Legislative Session under way, it is a good time to highlight the lobbying election available to qualifying public charities exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Nonprofit organizations that qualify for federal income tax exemption as public charities under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue

We recently reported on the National Labor Relations Board’s McLaren Macomb decision, which held that employers commit an unfair labor practice by merely proffering a severance agreement including broad confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses, regardless of whether the employee actually signs the agreement. The Board’s General Counsel (“GC”) has now issued a Guidance Memorandum explaining her

The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) ruled this week in the McLaren Macomb case, a decision applicable to both non-unionized and unionized employers, that merely including standard confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions in a severance agreement violates the National Labor Relations Act (the “Act”).  The new Biden administration Board found that such provisions “interfere with, restrain

On February 22, 2023, the United States Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision holding that an employee who is paid a day rate (without any weekly guarantee) must be paid overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) because day rates are inconsistent with the Department of Labor (“DOL”) regulations governing many exemptions from the