Cal/OSHA Proposes Rules for Egregious and Enterprise-Wide Violations
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Ukraine and Sudan TPS Work Authorization Continues Pending Further DHS Announcement
Quick Hits TPS for Ukraine and Sudan was scheduled to end on October 19, 2026. Pursuant to the updated announcement made on October 19, 2026, TPS Ukraine and TPS Sudan beneficiaries continue to have work authorization. USCIS has not announced an extension, a termination, or a new employment authorization document (EAD) auto-extension date. USCIS’s alert does not announce a formal TPS extension or termination for either country, Ukraine or Sudan.…
Resilience of the euro area economy – weathering one shock, preparing for the next
21 October 2026By Óscar Arce, Gerrit Koester and Beatrice Pierluigi[1]Despite a sharp rise in energy prices in early 2026, the euro area economy has proved resilient. This blog examines how decreased vulnerability to energy shocks, policy support and the global AI upswing have helped cushion the impact, and explores what is needed to sustain that resilience.The latest shock follows years of economic turbulence. The euro area has navigated the pandemic…
Death rates among 25–49-year-olds 42% higher in the North than the South of England, study finds
Death rates among adults aged 25–49 were 42% higher in the North than in the South of England in 2024, compared with 13% higher in 1981, according to research published today in The Lancet Public Health.The relative North–South gap in this age group has therefore more than tripled over four decades. These comparisons take account of differences in age and sex between the populations.In the 1980s, northern women in their…
Can legacy media learn from creators?
Q5’s Graham Page joins industry leaders to explore how established media can embrace the creator economy while protecting trust and credibility At Press Gazette’s Future of Media Technology Conference, Q5’s Graham Page joined leaders from The Guardian, BBC Studios and The Economist to explore how established media can embrace the creator economy. From audience relationships and talent to commercial models, the discussion highlighted opportunities for publishers to adapt without compromising…
New Jersey Considers CREAMMA Drug-Testing Amendment for Certain Safety-Sensitive Positions
Quick Hits New Jersey Senate Bill S4685 prohibits law enforcement officers, first responders, CDL drivers, or persons who operate heavy equipment from engaging in the recreational use of cannabis. If enacted as proposed, the bill would allow employers to take adverse action against such employees or applicants who use cannabis recreationally, and to conduct random drug tests to enforce compliance. S4685 remains pending before the New Jersey Legislature. If enacted,…
How Vin Bui became engineer #1 at Nowadays — and started treating it like his own company
Vin Bui was on a leave of absence from Cornell when he found Nowadays. He had just left his own YC company from the Winter 2025 batch and was back on campus, not enrolled, scrolling through Work at a Startup looking for what came next. A dog logo caught his eye. "It felt childlike in a way, and that unique taste is what originally attracted me," he says. Then he…
Flying a National Airline Through Bankruptcy
You’ve had a remarkably varied career that included finance, e-commerce, CPG, and outsourcing. But prior to joining Philippine Airlines (PAL) in 2019 as president and COO, you had never worked in aviation.I didn’t have any airline experience. Philippine Airlines’ billionaire owner, Lucio Tan, better known as Kapitan, recruited me because the airline was losing money and I’ve always been a turnaround guy.Looking at the financials, I saw that the company…
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge to NLRB Member Removal
Quick Hits The Supreme Court declined to hear former NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox’s challenge regarding the president’s authority to remove NLRB members, effectively ending her case for reinstatement. This decision leaves in place a D.C. Circuit decision holding that the president’s power to remove NLRB members could not be restricted by Congress. The decision aligns with Trump v. Slaughter, in which the Court upheld the president’s authority to remove a…
Has food inflation lost its bite?
20 October 2026By Elena Bobeica, Gerrit Koester, Friderike Kuik and Christiane Nickel[1] Has food inflation lost its bite? In this blog we explain why food inflation has fallen sharply, why new pressures are building from energy and extreme weather, and why many households are still feeling the effects of higher food prices.The puzzle of falling food inflation Since the start of 2026, headline inflation increased from 1.7% in January to…
Court Refuses to Block Executive Order Barring ‘Racially Discriminatory DEI Activities’ by Federal Contractors
Quick Hits On October 14, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland denied a preliminary injunction sought by five organizations whose members include government contractors, leaving Executive Order (EO) 14398 in effect while the case proceeds. The court found the groups were unlikely to succeed on their First Amendment and Fifth Amendment claims because the EO defines the prohibited activities as “disparate treatment based on race or…
How Ryder Kemper became employee #7 at Corgi Insurance — and never left San Francisco
Ryder Kemper was in Ohio, winding down a startup he and his college friends had built together. The team had decided to close it — not because it failed, but because they wanted different things. Ryder knew he wanted to stay in startups, and he knew he wanted to be in San Francisco. A message on Work at a Startup from Corgi Insurance's first sales hire changed everything. He did…
A Nobel Prize for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation
19 October 2026by Laura Gáti From Keynes’s famous “digging holes” example to modern stabilisation policy, Economics has come a long way in understanding how governments can respond to crises. The 2026 Nobel Prize recognises that progress. This blog post explains the research behind it.On 12 October this year, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Robert E.…
The End of the Unfair Dismissal Cap: What 1 January 2027 Means for Senior Employee Exits in the UK
For years, UK employers contemplating the exit of a well-paid employee, typically a senior executive, have had a degree of certainty. Even where an employer knows that dismissing without a proper process is likely to be unfair, the potential compensatory award for ordinary unfair dismissal has a ceiling. On 1 January 2027, that ceiling disappears as the statutory cap on the unfair dismissal compensatory award will be removed. For highly…
Delaware Employers Face Tighter AI and Profiling Rules Effective January 2027
Quick Hits Governor Matt Meyer signed amendments to the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act on September 2, 2026, that further limit profiling and automated decision-making based on the personal data of job applicants, employees, and independent contractors. Violations of the law can result in civil penalties up to $10,000 per violation. The amendments will take effect on January 1, 2027. The Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA) took effect on…
British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) 2025 annual compliance report card
The British Columbia Securities Commission (the Commission or the BCSC) recently published its annual compliance report, noting top deficiencies, outlining the Commission’s approach to non-compliance, and ending with a review of the regulatory landscape for 2025 in Staff Notice 31-368 Client Focused Reforms: Review of Registrants’ Know Your Client, Know Your Product and Suitability Determination Practices and Additional Guidance (the Report). For 2025, the BCSC served as the principal regulator…
Manchester Arena attack: pioneering rehab programme gives hope for remarkable recoveries
Participants consistently reported that the programme's personalised, holistic approach, and elite sport environment, helped them regain confidence, restore function and rebuild their lives.Patients described how the programme shifted their focus from simply coping with injury to actively “training like an athlete”, pursuing future goals and aspirations.The study identified several important lessons for the future of trauma rehabilitation:Recovery after major trauma must address psychological and social wellbeing, not just physical injuries.Personalised…
University of Manchester start-up LanthaGen Bio wins £100,000 Coller AI Competition to fund new research
LanthaGen Bio has already secured £2.4 million in grant funding, allowing their six-person team to build sustainably towards future development.Dan Healy, co-founder of LanthaGen Bio Ltd, said: “This funding has unlocked our next project, meaning we can extend the contracts of our amazing PhD scientists in Greater Manchester, keeping talent local and allowing us to target an entirely new metal for recycling that we couldn't previously research. As well as…
Know Before You Owe: New Rules Expand Health Plan Price Transparency Requirements
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services (the “Departments”) have finalized significant revisions to the Transparency in Coverage regulations (the “Amendments”). The Amendments require telephone access to personalized cost sharing information upon request, substantially restructure the machine readable file framework, and align certain Transparency in Coverage requirements with overlapping No Surprises Act obligations. The changes will be implemented on a staggered basis beginning in 2027. …
Who bears the loss among innocent parties after payment fraud? Saskatchewan Court of Appeal provides some clarity
We are living through — or perhaps suffering through — the golden age of fraud. One burden of daily life in the digital age is the constant need to identify and avoid scams: vishing calls, phishing emails, malicious links in legitimate-looking messages, investment scams on social media, AI-generated deepfakes and more. Modern payment rails are designed to move money quickly and frequently with as little friction as possible. While these…
Valdai Club to Discuss Russia-Africa Cooperation
On 23 October at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club’s Moscow venue will host a discussion entitled “Russia and Africa: In It for the Long Haul?” The end of October will see the third Russia-Africa summit and economic and humanitarian forum. When the first summit was held seven years ago, in 2019, the intensification of Russian policy in Africa came as a surprise not only to Western countries but…
Seyfarth Appoints Eric Anderson as Chief Information Officer, Strengthening Firmwide Technology and Innovation Leadership
October 15, 2026 – Seyfarth Shaw LLP has named Eric Anderson as its new Chief Information Officer, further enhancing the firm's technology leadership as it continues to advance innovative solutions for clients and operations across the business. Anderson, who had been Seyfarth’s Senior Director of IT and Security, succeeds Andy Jurczyk, who retired earlier this year. Anderson assumes responsibility for the firm's technology strategy, infrastructure, cybersecurity, application development, and technology…
Massachusetts Federal Court Enforces Noncompete Against Former Executive Employee
Quick Hits A Massachusetts federal judge enforced Fresenius’s noncompete agreement against a former supply chain executive who accepted employment with Vantive, a direct competitor, finding that the agreement adequately identified his employer and was properly executed. The court held that the restrictions were no broader than necessary under the Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act because the executive had access to confidential companywide information and competitive strategies, and the restrictions applied only…
AI transparency: The Competition Bureau weighs in
The Competition Bureau (Bureau) has made a submission to Ottawa’s consultation on AI transparency. It recommends three principles: transparency should support well-functioning, competitive markets, obligations should be proportionate and preserve competition, and regulation should focus on harms rather than technologies. For businesses, the submission is a reminder that existing competition law obligations apply to AI-related claims and conduct, even as new transparency measures are considered. The consultation, led by Innovation,…
Cleaning Up Contaminated Land Unlocks Local Economic Growth
Around the corner from one of Cameron LaPoint’s favorite sushi restaurants is a parking lot that looks much like any other. But LaPoint recently learned that a portion of this particular parking lot in New Haven is classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as a brownfield, a property thought to contain a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.Right now, the lot “probably isn’t suitable to be used for other things, because…
Long COVID, Regulating AI Medical Advice, and the Hidden Costs of Prior Authorization
Transcript Harlan Krumholz: Welcome to Health & Veritas. I’m Harlan Krumholz.Howard Forman: And I’m Howie Forman. We’re physicians and professors at Yale University. We’re trying to get closer to the truth about health and healthcare.Harlan Krumholz: Howie, today is a special day because we get to do a podcast together. We don’t actually have a special guest. Well, I have a special guest, Howie Forman.Howard Forman: I know. And I…
Webinar: The Cost of Schedule Changes: Understanding New York’s New Construction Reporting Pay Act
Thursday, November 12, 202612:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Central10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Mountain9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Pacific About the Program Beginning December 8, 2026, New York construction employers will face new reporting pay and shift-cancellation pay obligations under recently enacted legislation signed by Governor Kathy Hochul. The law generally requires covered construction employers to provide employees with up to four hours of…
Geopolitical Constraints and Challenges for the Commercialisation of the Northern Sea Route (NSR): A Case Study of the 2026 Pilot Project Using a National Container Ship
Only by establishing a diplomatic and institutional security strategy that provides a multilateral institutional payment infrastructure and guarantees the legitimacy of sanctions-exemption provisions can a sustainable era of commercial liner shipping in the Arctic be realised, writes Kim Seung Rae. This study provides a multifaceted analysis of the 2026 pilot project involving the operation of a national container ship, an initiative led by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries of…
Eleventh Circuit Finds No Administrative Exhaustion Required for Statutory ERISA Claims
Seyfarth Synopsis: In a significant en banc decision, Bolton v. Inland Fresh Seafood Corporation of America, Inc., No. 24-10084, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit overruled its four-decade-old precedent in Mason v. Continental Group, Inc., 763 F.2d 1219 (11th Cir. 1985), and found that ERISA does not require plaintiffs to exhaust administrative remedies before bringing statutory claims—including claims for breach of fiduciary duty. Background The case…
AI Smart Glasses in the Workplace: Seven Employment Law Risks to Consider
Quick Hits AI-enabled smart glasses create workplace compliance risks by enabling discreet recording, data capture, transcription, and AI analysis in settings where traditional smartphone policies may not apply. Employers may want to update recording and confidentiality rules to address wearable devices while accounting for consent laws, biometric privacy, trade secrets, investigations, and third-party data handling. Employers may want to ensure that restrictions are narrowly tailored to comply with labor laws…
FAR 52.222-90 and the ‘Outside the United States’ Exception to the Subcontract Flow-Down Requirement
Probably not. The clause’s flow-down requirement contains an exception for subcontracts where the place of “delivery or performance” is outside the United States. Because the exception is written in the disjunctive (i.e., “expressed by mutually exclusive alternatives joined by or”), a subcontract performed outside the United States may qualify for the exception even when the finished goods are delivered in the United States. That relatively straightforward example, however, raises harder…
What gets louder?
Before you scale AI, decide what you want it to amplify AI will amplify an organisation’s existing strengths and weaknesses, making strategic clarity, leadership judgement and organisational alignment more important than ever. Discover how Q5’s ‘What Gets Louder’ approach helps leadership teams identify where AI can create meaningful value, make strategic choices and align their organisations to turn opportunities into lasting competitive advantage. Reading time: 4 minutes AI is not…
Washington State DOSH Proposes Update to Construction PPE Rules
Quick Hits On October 6, 2026, Washington DOSH proposed updates to construction PPE rules to align with federal OSHA requirements, including requiring employers to ensure PPE properly fits each affected employee. The proposal also includes minor clarifications and housekeeping revisions, with public hearings in November 2026, comments due November 23, 2026, and intended adoption on March 2, 2027. DOSH’s primary purpose for this proposed rulemaking is to bring Washington’s construction PPE…
What Finance Can Tell Us About the ‘Twin Crises’ of Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss
Your research has covered a remarkable range of topics, from housing markets to patterns in volatility to discount rates to the economics of biodiversity loss and climate change. What draws you to these issues?I do have eclectic research interests. I was drawn to finance because I’ve always loved math, and finance works on challenging problems that are mathematical in nature but involve deep economic questions and serve an important social…
The End of “My AI Made Me Do It”: California’s New Rules for Lawyers and Generative AI
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Five ventures, one winner: Coller AI Competition awards £100k
The inaugural Innovation Festival ended on a high at the Nancy Rothwell Building, where five ventures went head to head in the Coller AI Competition final, pitching live for a £100,000 equity investment from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. LanthaGen Bio Ltd won with an AI platform that designs metal-capturing proteins computationally, helping recover valuable metals from electronic waste and onshore the UK's critical-mineral supply. CTO and co-founder Dan Healy led…
California Contractors Get a Much-Needed Break: SB 342 Softens the Harsh Consequences of Contractor License Lapses
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Beyond CETA: What EU “associate membership” actually means for Canadian business
Last week, a new term entered into the Canadian trade, economic, and political lexicon: “associate member of the European Union.” Never mind that there is no such status in the complex web of European Union external relations, and that all we have are three lines in a long “State of the Union” speech by the president of the European Commission; the term, and what it might imply, has since taken…
Seyfarth Named a Finalist in Three Categories of the 2026 Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards
Financial Times has selected Seyfarth as a finalist in three categories for its 2026 Innovative Lawyers Awards North America, underscoring the firm's commitment to innovation and the development of solutions that help clients stay ahead in a legal market shaped by constant change. The firm’s finalist recognitions include: People & Skills: Partnerships with Harvard Law School and Finding Mastery for Leadership Development Under the leadership of Chair and Managing Partner…
BLG at the SCC – What’s coming in the Supreme Court’s fall 2026 sitting schedule
Ceremony to mark the opening of the judicial year The Supreme Court of Canada held a ceremony today, Oct. 5, 2026, marking the opening of the judicial year, presided by the Chief Justice of Canada and attended by justice system leaders across Canada. The Court revived this tradition last year for the 150th anniversary of the Court. This morning’s ceremony took place at the Court’s new temporary home in the…
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