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Month: August 2015

Sing Tao Daily, August 28, 2015 – China’s New Strategy To Focus Investment Experts Along The Way

In front of a lot of unstable factors in the international economy, China’s next step will be going? (USF) University of San Francisco School of Business held yesterday afternoon, “China’s new investment strategy forum”, invited the business community and economic experts to answer this question. Forum invited experts, including Chinese consulate in San Francisco Commercial Counsellor summer Cheung, a retired…

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Women’s Equality Day

President Obama has declared today Women’s Equality Day and said that, “Women’s equality is a core civil and human rights principle in the United States and around the world.”  Read his proclamation below or at whitehouse.gov. WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY, 2015 – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On August 26,…

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News India Times, August 26, 2015 – N.Y. Democratic District Leader Rajkumar Has Albany On Her Mind

Incumbent Democratic District Leader representing Part C of the 65th District in Lower Manhattan Jenifer Rajkumar, has her eyes on a bigger prize – a move to Albany, N.Y. involving a race for the 65th state Assembly district seat currently held by indicted former Speaker of the House Sheldon Silver. This option came into sharper relief after the young Indian-American…

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Ageism and “The Clouds of Sils Maria”

I saw a great film recently called “The Clouds of Sils Maria” that features a superb female cast. (Warning: Spoilers Ahead!) The film is rich and complicated, and features multiple parallels between the relationships of the characters, both real and fictional. One theme that really stood out to me was the film’s treatment of older working women in society. Juliette…

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Sanford Heisler, LLP Announces Investigation into Employment Practices at Amazon.com

Posted August 19th, 2015. SANFORD HEISLER IS INVESTIGATING AMAZON.COM FOR POSSIBLE VIOLATIONS OF TITLE VII OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, THE FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT (FMLA), AND THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA) For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos, , [email protected] NEW YORK, August 19, 2015—Sanford Heisler, LLP today announced an investigation into the employment practices at…

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Human Resource Executive Online, August 18, 2015 – Rethinking Class-Action Requirements

Posted August 18th, 2015. As appeared on Human Resource Executive Online By Mark McGrawTuesday, August 18, 2015 Four years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes. The Court’s decision in that pivotal case struck down what would have been a class-action employment action involving 1.6 million Wal-Mart employees, and led experts to predict that achieving class…

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Three Sanford Heisler Kimpel LLP Attorneys Named to 2016 Best Lawyers® in America List

Posted August 17th, 2015. For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027, [email protected] Washington, DC — Monday, August 17, 2015 — Sanford Heisler Kimpel LLP is pleased to announce that three lawyers have been named to the 2016 Edition of Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. Best Lawyers has published their list for over three decades, earning…

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SEC Speaks Out About Retaliation Against Whistleblowers

We spend a lot of time on this blog talking about discrimination. Sometimes, we talk about specifically about retaliation for complaining about illegal discrimination, which is itself illegal. But I want to talk today about a subset of retaliation that we haven’t talked about much on this blog: Retaliation against whistleblowers. Retaliation against whistleblowers is an issue that certainly affects…

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The Wife Bonus

Should a feminist (married) woman accept payment from her husband for a job well done? This question set the internet hive a flutter since a piece in The New York Times detailed the so-called “wife bonuses” allegedly commonly collected by hyper-privileged women on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. According to Wednesday Martin, author of the forthcoming book “Primates of Park Avenue,” the wives of the…

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“Mad Men” Values Return to Austin City Council

The good news: This summer, women took a majority of seats on the Austin City Council for the first time ever.  The bad news: The City felt the need to “prepare” staff to work with women by putting on a training conducted by tone deaf speakers propounding culturally incompetent and antiquated gender stereotypes. Assistant City Manager Anthony Snipes organized the…

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