Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage. What does this mean for Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
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On April 26, 2021, the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced the opening of the 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collection (EEO-1). EEO-1 reports are mandated by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. If you are an employer who is required to file an EEO-1 report for 2019 or 2020, your report must be filed with the EEOC no later than July 19, 2021. Usually, the EEO-1 report is due by March 31 of every year. However, the EEOC delayed the March 31, 2020 filing in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, both the 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 reports are due July 19, 2021.
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The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, that M&K Construction must reimburse an employee, Vincent Hager, for the cost of his medical marijuana in his workers’ compensation case, upholding the lower court ruling.
Mr. Hager sustained an injury to his lumbar spine while working for M&K in 2001. Surgery was unsuccessful, leaving Mr. Hager with chronic pain that he managed with opiates until 2016 when he was approved for medical marijuana. Some of the evidence most impactful at trial was that Mr. Hager was able to reduce his opiate intake and alternatively treat his pain with medical marijuana. He ultimately submitted the receipts for the cost (2 ounces at $616 a month) to the carrier for reimbursement and was denied. The Judge of Compensation ordered the employer to reimburse the petitioner for the cost of his medical marijuana. The ruling was upheld by the Appellate Division in its January 2020 dec
Tax season always brings up several questions for clients who are divorced, in the process of divorce, or separated. The two biggest concerns are typically determining which filing.
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At the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, four Pennsylvania businesses challenged Governor Tom Wolf’s statutory authority to close non-essential (or non-life sustaining) businesses to mitigate the public health effects of the pandemic. In that case,
Friends of Danny Devito v. Wolf, 227 A.3d 872 (Pa. 2020), the petitioners argued Governor Wolf lacked the statutory authority under the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Services Code to issue an executive order mandating the temporary closure of inessential businesses. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court disagreed and recognized that the COVID-19 pandemic qualified as a natural disaster under the Pennsylvania Emergency Code, 35 Pa.C.S.A. § 7102. Section 7102, which defines “natural disaster” as any “catastrophe which results in substantial … hardship, suffering or possible loss of life. The