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Corporations may increase the number of directors on their boards to comply with these requirements. A director is from an underrepresented community if they self-identify as Black, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.
AB 979 adds to the gender diversity requirements previously imposed by SB 826 (passed in 2018).
Employer Reporting Requirements
New Successor Liability Risks and Secretary of State Disclosure Requirements (Beginning January 1, 2022)
AB 3075 will expand potential liability for successor employers, defined as entities that have acquired a business through a merger or consolidation, and use substantially the same workforce as the original employer to offer the same services as the original business. Successor employers will now be liable for any wages, damages, and penalties owed by the predecessor to its employees. Thus, if an original employer defaults on a wag
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Employers face one key challenge in their efforts to ensure compliance with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as the coronavirus pandemic extends into 2021, Jeff Nowak, shareholder at Littler Mendelson, and Matt Morris, vice president at FMLASource, said in a Dec. 9 webinar. There s virtually no case law in this area yet with respect to COVID-19, said Nowak.
Still, those in charge of compliance can take a couple of hints from the guidance provided by federal agencies as well as the small number of court cases that have touched on issues related to COVID-19, the presenters said. The webinar addressed a series of common FMLA and ADA questions employers have encountered this year.
More than 300k Americans dead from COVID-19: Death toll surpasses grim milestone just hours after NY ICU nurse becomes first in US to receive the vaccine
New York ICU nurse Sandra Lindsay was the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the US this morning
The first of the vaccinations were administered just hours before the COVID-19 death toll surpassed the grim 300,000 milestone
Seven-day rolling average for deaths is now just over 2,400 per day and average daily cases are at 213,000. Hospitalizations climbed to a record 109,331 yesterday
President Trump tweeted: First Vaccine Administered. Congratulations USA! Congratulations WORLD!
Vaccinations continued to roll out across the country throughout the morning with relieved healthcare workers from Ohio to Louisiana rolling up their sleeves to get the shot
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Owner Subjected Female Employees to a Hostile Work Environment, Federal Agency Charged
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Protocol of Amherst, Inc., doing business as Protocol Restaurant in Buffalo, will pay $90,000 and take other steps to settle a sex harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Paul Pelczynski, the restaurant’s owner and general manager, sexually harassed female employees by, among other things, engaging in numerous instances of inappropriate physical contact. The EEOC charged that Protocol discharged female employees who objected to Pelczynski’s conduct or rejected his advances, and that other female employees quit because they could no longer endure the hostile work environment.