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COVID-19 pandemic: How to prepare your business

Insperity

Because public health conditions can change rapidly, it’s critical for employers to know: How to help protect employees and customers How to continue business operations during a pandemic How to rely on official sources to stay informed How to manage and mitigate organizational risks How to navigate potential legal issues that may arise.

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Musk’s $56 billion pay package: What are the legal hurdles?

Work Life

They will also be asked to approve moving the company’s legal home to Texas from Delaware. Below is a look at the potential legal fight standing in the way of Musk’s pay day. If shareholders vote to pay Musk, it will likely set off another legal challenge. The shareholder legal team requested $6 billion.

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Green Building Council says Scotland has abandoned its role as a leader on climate

Workplace Insight

Scotland has missed eight of the 12 legally-binding annual emissions reduction targets and the hard reality of our transition to a net zero society is that the critical heavy lifting needs to be done now. This is not the political leadership that Scotland needs.

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New legally-binding air quality targets fall short of their ambitions, safety body warns

Workplace Insight

The British Safety Council has warned that new legally binding air quality targets for the UK, which passed the final stages of parliamentary scrutiny earlier this week, fall well short of what is needed to keep people safe. The Government wanted to be ambitious. And, yes, they will address small particulate matter for the first time.

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Why all workplaces should focus on human rights

Work Life

Legal compliance no longer offers a solid foundation for efforts to run an ethical business. Notwithstanding numerous ideological and partisan divisions over the role that business should play in society, most people agree that a corporation should strive to clean up any messes it makes and to treat those it affects with respect.

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Immigrants do work that might not otherwise get done—bolstering the U.S. economy

Work Life

The government agency also found that there were 6.1 This category encompasses everything from legal services to janitorial work, including cleaning and grounds maintenance. Wouldn’t it make more sense for Congress to expand pathways for legal employment access for migrants? Help really wanted The U.S.

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Cautious welcome for government’s disability plan which aims to make UK ‘most accessible nation’

Workplace Insight

million more disabled people in work now than in 2017, which the government claims is delivering a commitment five years early. Now, we are calling on the Government to go further and to commit funding to make assistive tech available for everyone who needs it. “We This has included seeing 1.3