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Employment Law: Californian company charged for failing to pay minimum wage on contracts with State

California's Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. has commenced action against Country Builders, Inc. alleging that the company entered into contracts with the State that required that employees...

BizLawCentral: Money laundering risk management book now available on Kindle

"How not to be a money launderer" - subtitled "the avoidance of money laundering and fraud in your organisation" was a ground-breaking book when it was published in 1996, a la...

Asset seizure: Stanford liquidators driven to near-ruin by cost of case

The liquidators of Stanford International Bank (SIB) are themselves reportedly in deep financial trouble; the liquidator, Vantis Business Recovery Services, are part of an accounting company call...

BizLawCentral - employment law - USA: staff to be paid for time putting on and taking off protective clothing

Pilgrim's Pride Corp. v US Department of Labour: a settlement has been reached under which the company will pay employees for the time it takes to put on and take off protective clothing - and wi...

Intellectual Property: conviction for uploading pre-release version of film to internet

A character in The Love Guru is compared to Tiger Woods, and then in a fall from grace, said to go "from role model to dating models." But it was not the prescient comment that brings t...

BizLawCentral: Ernst and Young in SEC settlement

Bally Total Fitness was E&Y's "riskiest account in the Chicago area." So naturally, its auditors did not notice that there were huge overstatements in its accounts. Importantly, the...

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