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Source: Auckland Council Coastal hazards such as erosion and flooding pose a very real risk to coastal communities around Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland. The impacts of coastal erosion and other coastal hazards will be influenced by our changing climate, including the effects of sea-level rise, and the decisions we make as Tāmaki Makaurau continues to grow. To better understand the potential impacts of coastal erosion, Auckland Council has released a new report, ‘ Predicting Aucklandâ€�...

[co-author: Michelle Lappen] President Biden nominated Jennifer Abruzzo, Special Counsel for Strategic Initiatives for the Communications Workers of America, to be General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. Abruzzo was a Board veteran with more than two decades at the agency before becoming the union’s point person on NLRB issues. She was NLRB Deputy General Counsel and then Acting General Counsel before former General Counsel Peter Robb was confirmed by the Senate. According to t...

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Source: Auckland Council Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau is blessed with 3,200km of coastline of significant environmental, social, cultural and economic value. Auckland’s diverse coastline is much loved by residents and visitors alike, but it also presents a range of issues and hazards that we need to better understand and plan for. Issues like complex coastal processes and the impacts of coastal hazards, climate change, and ongoing regional growth are some of the challenges Auckland Council ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As we recently reported, National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel Peter Sung Ohr recently gave us a peek behind the curtain at his prosecutorial priorities as General Counsel when he rolled back a number of General Counsel Memoranda issued by his predecessor, Peter Robb.  Consistent with that roll back, Ohr recently directed the agency to withdraw complaints attacking union neutrality agreements, which were issued at Rob...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Each Friday during the first 100 days of the new administration, we will provide a recap of significant initiatives and events that will impact employers.  In week two, the Biden administration shook things up at the National Labor Relations Board with the firing and replacement of General Counsel Peter Robb, walked back President Trump’s pro-independent contractor agenda at the Department of Labor, made new appointments at OSHA, a...

Tougher EEOC and OFCCP, a legal challenge at NLRB, and more. NOTE FROM ROBIN: In this limited-edition "Biden Time" series, I provide regular updates on the new Presidents appointments and other actions that will be of interest to employers. President Joe Biden continued to rock along in his first full week in office. Here are the highlights: "Cmon, man! I love employers! I read Employment & Labor Insider every Friday!" The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced yesterday that it is...

In the wake of the issue of termination of the bank’s CEO Brijdina Rajan Coutinho, Maharashtra based leading UCB- Bassein Catholic Cooperative Bank board has been divided into two groups and thus pushed into a legal fight. The fight between the board of directors started in the board meeting held on 2nd January 2021 which lasted till late night, when at around 10:00 P.M, Ryan Fernandes, Chairman of the UCB came with the letter of termination of CEO. This angered the board members and ruckus f...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: One day after a standoff between President Biden and NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb resulted in his unprecedented termination, President Biden fired the NLRB’s second-ranked attorney, NLRB Deputy General Counsel Alice Stock, according to a Bloomberg report.  Stock would have served as Acting NLRB General Counsel after Robb’s termination on January 20 th.  As of this posting, it is not clear who will be appointed to serve as Act...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton Corporate compliance programs are expected to be tailored to an organizations unique risks. Most regulators (and most modern organizational compliance programs) Mintz Included as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, the Corporation Transparency Act (CTA), enacted on January 1, 2020, is an effort by the federal government... Mayer Brown Privately held companies preparing for an initial public offering often undertake a public company readiness assess...