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EEOC: How is Your Anti-Harassment Training Going?

July 19, 2016

On June 20, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released the findings and recommendations of its Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace. Unsurprisingly, since one

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The Supreme Court May Have to Decide

July 18, 2016

It is not unusual for federal courts to disagree with federal agency interpretations. When some disagree, but others agree, only the U.S. Supreme Court can resolve the differences.   Recently,

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CFPB Seeks to Ban Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements on Finance Products and Services

May 31, 2016

On May 5, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued its long-awaited proposed rule on predispute arbitration provisions. This was done as part of a curiously timed CFPB field hearing

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Still Filling the Federal Bucket List

April 28, 2016

In January, we noted that federal bureaucrats will impose the burdens of as many of their wish list items on businesses they can in the final year of the Obama

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Data Protection

March 28, 2016

The complications of protecting data keep multiplying for dealers. Vehicle Data At the Washington D.C. Auto Show’s public policy panel this year, Federal Trade Commissioner Maureen Olhansusen warned that the

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Recall Developments

March 28, 2016

As we exit a record year for recalls and we enter the new year, one can ask what the vehicle manufacturers have done collectively to try and improve the national

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Filling that Federal Bucket List

March 28, 2016

As we warned in January, federal bureaucrats see the final year of the Obama administration as possibly their last best chance to check off the bucket list for amassing total

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FTC Gets Involved in Recallmania

February 24, 2016

The Federal Trade Commission, zealous about protecting its turf in regulating retail vehicle sales, has shown that it wants to be involved in the rapidly escalating recall problems. In announcing

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EEOC Proposes Requiring Employee Pay Reports

February 24, 2016

Each September, we remind dealers who employ over 100 workers in the dealership or in a group of affiliated dealerships to file their EEO-1 reports. These reports allow the Equal

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