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Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines, May 2021 # 6

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In Washington: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that fully vaccinated individuals don’t need to wear masks. The new guidance says people who have waited for two weeks after receiving their...more

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Financial Daily Dose 5.7.2021 | Top Story: Improving Unemployment Figures Buoys Hopes for Strong April Jobs Report

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New jobless claims fell dramatically in new figures released on Thursday, as “the improving public health situation and the easing of pandemic-related restrictions allowed the labor market to continue its gradual return to...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.10.2021 | Top Story: U.S. Drops Plans to Force TikTok Sale to Oracle and Walmart

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After months of drama that we dutifully catalogued right here, the U.S. plan to “force the sale of TikTok’s American operations” to Oracle and Walmart “has been shelved indefinitely.” The forced sale has “languished since...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.12.2021 | Top Story: New PPP Round Kicks Off with Focus on Community Lenders

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Version 3.0 of the PPP kicked off yesterday, with community lenders leading the way by focusing on “underserved borrowers—including women-led businesses and those run by Black, Latino and Asian owners and other minorities” in...more

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Walmart and Self-Driving Delivery Cars

Walmart announced that it will begin experimenting with self-driving cars in a pilot program with General Motors-backed Cruise (a tech start-up with electric, self-driving cars) to deliver groceries and other products to...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.23.2020 | Top Story: CA Appeals Court Tells Uber and Lyft to Treat Drivers as Employees

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A California appeals court has affirmed a lower court decision requiring Uber and Lyft to “treat their California drivers as employees, providing them with the benefits and wages they are entitled to under state labor law.”...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.13.2020 | Top Story: Disney Overhauls Organization to Focus on Streaming

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New Disney CEO Bob Chapek made one of his biggest moves yet since taking the reins, announcing a realignment “of its business divisions on Monday that placed the focus squarely on Disney+ and its other streaming services as...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.30.2020 | Top Story: JPMorgan Reaches $920M Settlement with Feds Over Spoofing Allegations

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Under the terms of a deal with the DOJ announced this week, JPMorgan will pay $920 million and sign on to a deferred prosecution agreement “to resolve charges that it had manipulated markets for U.S. government bonds and...more

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Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines – COVID-19 D.C. Update – September 2020 # 13

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In Washington - Trump health administration officials testified Wednesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on the nation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH,...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.24.2020 | Top Story: JPMorgan Nears $1B Settlement Over Alleged Spoofing

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JPMorgan is preparing to finalize a deal with federal prosecutors and regulators in which the bank would pay nearly $1 billion to “settle civil and criminal charges that its traders rigged futures and securities markets”...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.21.2020 | Top Story: White House Signs Off on Deal for Oracle & Walmart to Take Stake in TikTok

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The White House has given its crucial imprimatur to a deal for Oracle (and Walmart) to take a stake in Chinese video app TikTok, “an agreement that will delay the U.S. government’s threat to block the popular app in the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.28.2020 | Top Story: In Major Policy Shift, Fed Embraces Inflation to Keep Rates Low

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In hotly anticipated comments on Thursday—and yes, such a designation applies to a speech on monetary policy—Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell “announced a major shift in how the central bank guides the economy, signaling it...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.25.2020 | Top Story: U.S. and China Resume Trade Talks Over Phase One Status

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Despite an earlier White House promise to postpone, American and Chinese trade negotiators met via videoconference on Monday to discuss “the status of the trade deal both nations signed in January, a pact that continues to...more

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A Look at Covid-19 Litigation and Key Considerations to Mitigate Potential Litigation

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Since March 2020, approximately 4,219 Covid-19 related cases have been filed across the United States, including: 1,004 Insurance Related Cases... 716 Prisoner/Habeas Corpus Cases... 538 Civil Rights Cases... 415 Labor and...more

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Readying For The Return: Employers Should Review Insurance Policies For These Protections

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Re-opening the workplace may expose employers to potential liabilities, particularly if an employee contracts the virus from a workplace exposure. Some companies are already becoming involved in such lawsuits and they may...more

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First Employee Lawsuit Filed Seeking to Avoid the Workers’ Compensation Exclusivity Bar for COVID-19-Related Injuries

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Among the many issues employers are struggling with in the midst of the current COVID-19 crisis is the risk of harm to an essential employee who is compelled to report to work. While, of course, most employers are proactively...more

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Update: Can Employees Sue Their Employer for Contracting the Coronavirus?

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In the March 30 article entitled "Can Employees Sue Their Employer for Contracting the Coronavirus?", we discussed whether an employer may be held liable for an employee’s contraction of COVID-19....more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.18.2020 | Top Story: Markets Gain on Stimulus Promise as Volatility Rules

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Volatility’s the name of the game these days on Wall Street. So what was down on Monday was up (a bit, at least) yesterday, although the basics of the situation haven’t improved at all....more

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Walmart Takes Lead in Providing Paid Sick Leave in the Face of COVID-19

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For regular readers of this blog, you know that my colleague, Tracey Truesdale, gave you some tips for properly paying employees in the event of a pandemic. That was on February 26, 2020. Since then, we’ve heard of employers...more

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An Unintended Interruption to the Global Supply Chain

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The current outbreak of COVID-19 (the coronoavirus) will be a test of the global supply chain’s strength in the face of unintended interruptions, and can be a lesson on building-in supply-chain contingency plans.  As a result...more

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