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The most essential employee handbook updates to make this year
By Elizabeth Hartsel Timely employee handbook updates that all business owners should address. Getty An employee handbook is one of the most important things that labor lawyers advise companies to have and update regularly. The reasons for this are simple: employee handbooks not only formalize guidelines, expectations, and terms of employment, but, more importantly, they …
This platform wants to disrupt the payday loan industry
NAAC Finance will connect the unbanked with quick cash and financial education, helping them avoid predatory high-interest loans. More than 7 million U.S. households are unbanked, meaning no one living in that household has a checking or savings account, according to a FDIC investigation. Lack of a bank account can make it difficult to get …
Christine Taylor and Ben Taylor appear to be getting back together
To share Tweeter To share To share E-mail Well, Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor are back together! Now, this is some unexpected news we get from Hollywood. Recently, in an interview conducted by Esquire, Ben Stiller announced that they had decided to give their relationship …
“The work carried out by our team has proven to be essential in increasing vaccination coverage”
There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has challenged and tested all aspects of healthcare delivery. However, who could have predicted that this would be a pandemic that would strike at the heart of the equality agenda and force health officials to examine the relationship between race-based inequalities and outcomes for health. As a …
OP-ED | Paid Vacation: An Essential Tool to Close Connecticut’s Wealth Gap
ANDREA BARTON REEVES This election year, politicians and experts will have opinions and proposals to help workers and families in Connecticut as they face persistent economic challenges. In these trying times, it’s important to remember that some communities in Connecticut have even greater obstacles to making ends meet. A recent analysis conducted by financial website …
A matter of status – UK Human Rights Blog
February 18, 2022 by Rosalind Français The Good Law Project and The Runnymede Trust, R (at the request of) v Prime Minister and Anor [2022] EWHC 298 (admin) (February 15, 2022) This was an interesting decision on the question of standing, something that has kind of fallen by the wayside since it was the subject …
Rwanda’s primary health care strategy improves access to essential and lifesaving health services
In Rwanda, the ‘land of a thousand hills’, reaching the nearest health facility usually means a long walk that until recently took an average of 95 minutes. Although walking time has been halved to 47 minutes in 2020, it is still difficult for many people to access timely health care. Through an innovative approach that …