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Days before Christmas, a hospital in the North Carolina foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains maxed out its resources.
Caldwell UNC Health Care, a 137-bed hospital in Lenoir, had planned for a surge of COVID-19 cases for months. But the facility went from treating 19 infected patients to 49 in just one week, its president and CEO Laura Easton told
MedPage Today. The hospital s average daily census rose from between 60 and 80 patients to between 110 and 120.
Community spread was high, and a number of employees were also out of work, Easton said. Three out of five neighboring hospitals were similarly stretched.
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The New York City Council has amended the Fair Chance Act (FCA) to expand employment protections for job applicants and employees with criminal conviction histories. The amendments became law on January 10, 2021, (upon being returned to the Council unsigned by Mayor Bill de Blasio) and
take effect on July 29, 2021.
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As detailed in our prior advisory, the FCA prohibited most New York City employers from making inquiries into an applicant s criminal conviction history until after extending to the applicant a conditional offer of employment.
In addition, the FCA made it an unlawful discriminatory practice to deny employment or take adverse action against an employee because the individual has a prior conviction history, unless the employer undergoes an individualized analysis to determine that the employee s criminal conviction history bears a direct relationship to the position in question. The FCA als
Mayor De Blasio Has a New Anti-Hair-Discrimination Law
The fashionista gestapo have arrived in New York City. Bill de Blasio, née Warren Wilhelm, has a new rule, he will prosecute anyone caught discriminating based on a person’s hairstyle.
It’s now considered racist to have any standards regarding an employee’s hair if you run a company, a gym, a school, a nightclub, any location. Employers will have no control over the image their employees present.
The New York City Commission on Human Rights will ban hair-based harassment as a form of racial discrimination, according to The New York Times. The kicker is that the law is especially “aimed at remedying the disparate treatment of black people.”
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One student told JTA that he witnessed Yeshiva University rabbis tearing down posters advertising an LGBTQ event on campus. (Courtesy of YU student organizers via JTA)
JTA Ten years after an event featuring gay students and graduates divided Yeshiva University, students at the Modern Orthodox school are planning another event on LGBTQ issues with trepidation.
The students who helped plan the event set for Sunday say they do not want their names associated with the panel out of concern that it could have negative academic, personal or professional consequences in the Orthodox world. One said he saw rabbis at the school tearing down flyers promoting the virtual event and filed a federal discrimination complaint against the school as a result.
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