Joe Mont

Earlier this week, bicameral legislation, the Sunlight in Workplace Harassment Act, was filed. It would require publicly-traded companies to disclose workplace harassment and discrimination settlements.

Suspicious stock trades may have been timed to Education Department announcements, a letter from Senate and House DEmocrats allege in a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

The National Labor Relations Board, recently abating the longstanding confusion over who is designated as a joint employer and why, is right back at the drawing board with an administrative move that puts the old Browning-Ferris standard for joint employment back into effect.

The FTC has reached a settlement with PayPal over allegations related to its Venmo peer-to-peer payment service, claimed privacy protections, and violations of violations of Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act rules.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to a six-month extension to the deadline by which open-end funds must comply with certain elements of the Commission’s liquidity risk management program rule.

The SEC has released updated cyber-security disclosure guidance. Chairman Jay Clayton says the guidance “will promote clearer and more robust disclosure by companies about cyber-security risks and incidents, resulting in more complete information being available to investors.”

A new report, released Wednesday by the Treasury Department, details what officials see as serious flaws with the Dodd-Frank Act’s orderly liquidation authority.

The Supreme Court this week placed limitations on the SEC’s whistleblower program. “To sue under Dodd-Frank’s anti-retaliation provision, a person must first ‘provide information relating to a violation of the securities laws to the Commission,’”  wrote Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

A Google employee who mocked the company’s diversity policies and female coders has lost an appeal to the National Labor Relations Board and will not be reinstated.