Middle East: Alert - March 18, 2010
The government of Bahrain recently announced changes to the country's rules relating to work visas for expatriate workers. Specifically, foreign workers in Bahrain are now able to change jobs without the consent of their employers. This new rule, the first of its kind in the Middle East, will help to bring an end to the current phenomena of Bahraini citizens sponsoring multiple foreign workers and charging a "visa fee" to work for another employer.
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The Supreme Court Decision in Citizens United v. FEC
This alert reviews key aspects of last week's landmark Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, in which the Court cleared the way for corporations and labor unions to contribute to political campaigns in a more direct way - and permitted those entities to pay for express advocacy as long as the advocacy is not coordinated with any campaign or political party. It also points to underreported aspects of the ruling, and areas of campaign finance rules that will remain the same.
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