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Michael Moore presented three separate programs at last week's (Thursday, Oct. 24) National Business Institute's Advanced Employment Law Seminar. His first presentation, "Conducting an Effective Internal Investigation," focused on what to consider during the investigation, whether to outsource or keep the matter in-house and ways to legally remedying the problem.

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Attorney Wayne Young wrote an article about white-collar exemptions in this month's (September) issue of HR Professionals Magazine. In the article, Wayne provides details on this HR legal hot topic and answers some of the most common questions surrounding the 2016 Final Rule changes.

Good news for employers. The new EEO-1 report, which would have been very onerous on employers, has been suspended. The Office of Information Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) decided that the new EEO-1 component 2 report is suspended indefinitely.

Wayne Young spoke to Arkansas Business's Mark Friedman about the legal ramifications of terminating an employee who participates in rallies involving hate groups.

Marshall Ney has been making the rounds on the speaking circuit recently in Northwest Arkansas discussing education law, special education law and related matters.

Wednesday (July 26, 2017) the Trump Department of Justice filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court, taking the position that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not offer protection based on an employee’s sexual orientation. In a case now before the United States Supreme Court, NLRB v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc., the Trump DOJ has filed a brief with the court reversing its support of the NLRB, and arguing that such arbitration agreements do not violate employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act.