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		<title>Immigration Adjustment of Status Applications Are a Matter of Discretion, USCIS Reaffirms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 23:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[By: Nancy Shalhub, Edward J. Castillo, and Ryan A. Mosser]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 21, 2026, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a new policy memorandum (<a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/memos/PM-602-0199-AdjustmentOfStatusAndDiscretion-20260521.pdf">PM-602-0199</a>) reaffirming that Adjustment of Status (AOS) under Section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is “a matter of discretion and administrative grace”—an extraordinary form of relief not designed to supersede the regular consular visa process. ]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court to Review Whether Title IX Allows Employee Discrimination Claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 22:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[By: Bethany S. Wagner and Zachary V. Zagger]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court of the United States will consider whether a former Georgia Tech head women’s basketball coach and a former Augusta University art professor may bring employment-based sex discrimination claims under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972—a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities, but is not typically utilized in the employment discrimination context.]]></description>
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		<title>Beltway Buzz, May 22, 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 17:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[By: James J. Plunkett]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The <em>Beltway Buzz</em><sup>®</sup> is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business.]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Hiring Alert: Child Labor Law Updates Across Four States</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 17:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[By: Zachary V. Zagger]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As summer hiring ramps up and many minors seek seasonal work, employers may want to be aware that Colorado, Indiana, New Jersey, and New York have recently updated their child labor laws, affecting employers’ compliance obligations in those states for hiring workers under the age of eighteen. ]]></description>
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		<title>What’s in a Name? Successor Liability and Cal/OSHA Citations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[By: Adam J. Crane]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As employers across California navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, one issue keeps surfacing in California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) enforcement actions: what happens when the division cites a company that no longer exists? ]]></description>
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		<title>SCOTUS Sides With Pension Fund in Withdrawal Liability Calculation Dispute</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 21:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 21, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States, resolving a circuit court split, ruled in favor of a multiemployer pension fund, finding that plan actuaries calculating withdrawal liability can apply actuarial assumptions in effect after the measurement date. ]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Legal Compliance for Paid Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 16:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[By: Lucas J. Asper and Charles L. Thompson, IV]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employee Engagement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employees and employers are planning ahead for upcoming holidays like Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, and Labor Day. Paid company holidays are common, but the total number per year may vary by industry, location, or union status. ]]></description>
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		<title>Multistage Notices Under Colorado’s Revamped AI Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 16:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[By: Jennifer G. Betts, Simone R.D. Francis, Danielle Ochs, and Zachary V. Zagger]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colorado lawmakers have completed their hotly anticipated rewriting of the state’s landmark artificial intelligence (AI) law. While the new law shifts compliance from a risk-based to a transparency-based approach, it maintains significant notice-and-disclosure obligations for employers (referred to as “deployers” in the law), requiring them to disclose to employees and job applicants when an AI tool was used to make an adverse employment decision.]]></description>
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		<title>Sick Note After Denied Vacation—Probative Value Lost, German Labor Court Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A ruling by the Heilbronn Labor Court (<em>Arbeitsgericht</em> (ArbG) Heilbronn) on March 27, 2026 (<a href="https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/NJRE001639418">Ref. No. 7 Ca 314/25</a>), demonstrates once again that the probative value of a certificate of incapacity for work, while significant under German labor law, is not unassailable. ]]></description>
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		<title>OFCCP May 2026 Quick Hits: Enforcement, Leadership, and Beyond (Podcast)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 13:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[By: Christopher J. Near and Lauren B. Hicks]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this podcast, shareholders Lauren Hicks (Indianapolis/Atlanta) and Chris Near (Columbia) deliver a quick update as of May 2026 on the current state of OFCCP, breaking down recent developments in data collection, pending rulemaking, changes in agency leadership, and the White House’s proposal to again defund OFCCP in next year’s budget.]]></description>
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