SBA offering disaster assistance to people, businesses affected by January tornado (Source: WBRC) By WBRC Staff | April 5, 2021 at 12:00 PM CDT - Updated April 5 at 12:02 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Alabama businesses and people affected by the tornado on Jan. 25-26, 2021 can apply for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman said the SBA made the loans available in response to a letter from Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on March 30, requesting a disaster declaration by the SBA.
The declaration covers Jefferson County and Bibb, Blount, St. Clair, Shelby, Tuscaloosa and Walker counties.
“The SBA is strongly committed to providing the people of Alabama with the most effective and customer-focused response possible to assist businesses of all sizes, homeowners and renters with federal disaster loans,” said Guzman. “Getting businesses and communities up and running after a disaster is our highest priority
Health Care Staffing Company and Executive Indicted for Colluding to Suppress Wages of School Nurses Published: 03 April 2021 03 April 2021
Las Vegas, Nevada - A federal grand jury in Las Vegas, Nevada, returned an indictment Tuesday charging VDA OC LLC (formerly Advantage On Call LLC), a health care staffing company, and Ryan Hee, a former manager of the company, with entering into and engaging in a conspiracy with a competitor to allocate employee nurses and to fix the wages of those nurses, in violation of the Sherman Act.
According to the one-count felony indictment filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, Hee, a resident of Las Vegas, along with a co-conspirator, agreed not to recruit or hire nurses staffed by their respective companies at Clark County School District facilities and to refrain from raising the wages of those nurses. During the alleged conspiracy, from about October 2016 until July 2017, Advantage was one of two primary providers
Published: 03 April 2021 03 April 2021
Washington, DC - The Justice Department Wednesday announced that it has reached a settlement agreement with Spike Inc., a moving and storage company doing business as Olympia Moving and Storage.
The settlement resolves the department’s claims that Spike violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by failing to consider four U.S. workers for employment opportunities that it instead filled with H-2B visa workers at two of its locations in the Philadelphia, PA and Washington, DC metropolitan areas.
“Employers should hire workers based on their qualifications, not their citizenship or immigration status,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Pamela S. Karlan of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Civil Rights Division is committed to protecting workers from this type of discrimination.”