No mask, no ride: SacRT rolls out new policy as Sacramento goes under stay-at-home order
Sacramento Regional Transit said it will be enforcing its new mask policy requiring all customers over the age of two to wear a mask, no exceptions. Author: Samantha Solomon (ABC10) Updated: 5:34 PM PST December 11, 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. A new mask policy goes into effect on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, for Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) riders: no mask, no ride, no exceptions.
Previously, SacRT allowed some exceptions included in the county s health directive that allowed people to not wear a mask if they had a disability that prevented them from doing so.
On December 1, 2020, the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC filed a proposal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to establish a new rule that would require diversity on.
Missouri Construction Company to Pay $38K to Settle Pregnancy Discrimination Suit December 10, 2020
A St. Louis, Mo.-based construction company that revoked an applicant’s job offer after learning she was pregnant will settle a federal discrimination lawsuit for $38,000.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says The Harlan Company also will furnish other relief to settle the suit, in which the EEOC charged that the firm violated federal discrimination law by failing to hire a job applicant for a receptionist position in June 2019 because she was pregnant.
According to the EEOC, the company interviewed the applicant and decided she was the best qualified person for an open receptionist position. The company offered the applicant the job and she accepted. The following day, the company learned she was pregnant. One day later, it revoked the job offer and hired another individual who was not pregnant.
Friday, December 11, 2020
Tick Tock. The clock is ticking and the 116th Congress has three big tasks in its waning days: ensure the federal government does not shut down due to a lack of funding, pass the National Defense Authorization Act, and get an economic stimulus package on the president’s desk. With regard to government funding and economic stimulus, as of now, the plan appears to punt those items to next week (via a one-week continuing resolution) and then roll them together into one legislative vehicle (though even this strategy appears perilous, because there is no such agreement yet at the time of this writing). While this strategy buys legislators time, it isn’t as if they have been making much headway, particularly with regard to an economic stimulus bill. Indeed, the negotiations this week have resulted in almost no substantive progress from our report last week, and the status of negotiations on all three bills appears to be getting worse, not better.
The EEOC is inviting us to ask for opinion letters!
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced this week that it will begin issuing opinion letters in response to requests from the public.
The Americans with Disabilities Act appears
not to be an eligible topic, presumably because the EEOC doesn t have the capacity to be flooded with questions about COVID-19 and whether employers can legally mandate that employees get the vaccine when it is available. (Vaccine guidance is reportedly on the way.)
As employers know, for many years the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor has issued opinion letters on the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act. Wage and Hour opinion letters were discontinued during the Obama Administration, but they were revived after President Trump took office.