September 06, 2024
On Thursday, September 26, from 12-1, Chris Gantt-Sorenson will cover the EEOC's 2024 Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace in detail, providing employers and human resource professionals an understanding of how the Guidance impacts EEOC's investigations and considerations of Charges of Discrimination and Harassment filed with the agency.August 14, 2024
Update:August 13, 2024
Join Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd’s Denny Major on August 22, from 12-1 PM, for an update on the latest news regarding the FTC’s final rule on non-compete agreements.July 03, 2024
By: Will Johnson and Dennard Small (2024 Summer Law Clerk, 2L at University of South Carolina School of Law)June 21, 2024
By: Will Johnson and Drew Turner (2024 Summer Law Clerk, 1L at University of South Carolina School of Law)June 05, 2024
Click here to view a recording of this complimentary webinar presented by HSB's Employment Law team.May 28, 2024
The Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit (48C) was created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to focus on green energy manufacturing and has been brought back with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Under the IRA, the program was allocated $10B to invest in green energy manufacturing projects. Round 1 ended its application period in December 2023, and $4B in allocation awards were provided to recipients in April 2024. The Round 2 application period will open at the end of May 2024 with $6B available to allocate in a competitive application process.
May 03, 2024
Click here to view a recording of this complimentary webinar hosted by HSB's Employment Law team.April 26, 2024
On Friday, April 19, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added two of the 12,000+ PFAS to the CERCLA list of hazardous substances. CERCLA is commonly known as the superfund law and was passed in 1980 to allow EPA and state agencies to seek cleanup costs for releases of hazardous substances into the environment. CERCLA can impose broad liability on potentially responsible parties and is used by EPA and state agencies to force such entities to respond and remediate to releases of hazardous substances.April 24, 2024
Yesterday, April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission issued a much anticipated final rule banning non-compete agreements. The final rule, which is effective September 4, 2024, prohibits any person (including business entities) from entering into or attempting to enter into a “non-compete clause.”