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Single-occupancy restrooms are now required to be marked as all gender and designated for single-use occupancy, family use, or assisted use. No gendered signs can be posted for these facilities. (Patch.com). We recommend designating at least one restroom in your facility as a gender-neutral restroom for the purpose of inclusivity. B: Non-Binary Gender. New laws allow those in the Queer community to designate their gender identity as "female", "male", or "non-binary" on their official identification. As an employer, it's important to recognize that non-binary people do exist, and do work. Consider introducing a training on gender and orientation sensitivity and review pronouns and procedures that may currently be gendered.
Read MoreIf your contracts and policy manuals have not been updated, move it to the top right along with your fiscal year planning. If you are one of those companies where planning was done last year or years before for this new decade, congratulations, we are trying to keep up with you, but if you have not yet put those goals and ideas down on paper and discussed them with your department heads (which could be you and all your many hats) then let's get the ball moving.
Read MoreIt's true that the world is in need of repair. Could Dr. King be proud of the state of our world? We think that he would be tremendously pleased to see the rapid rate at which the truth and information spread. We think he would be delighted to see how hard organizers and youth around the world are fighting for the tomorrow he-too believed in. We think he would be elated to know how the world is changing - that we have a deeper awareness of the ties that bind us, the things that divide us and that we are working to break them.
Read MoreThe impeachment process for Donald J. Trump began on September 24th of 2019. Today - January 23rd - we’re just getting into the Trial portion of impeachment. Among the discoveries in American households when impeachment began was that it doesn’t *actually* mean an automatic unseating of the president. In-fact, in the other rare circumstances of Presidential impeachment, the President has been acquitted.
Read MoreIn order to decrease fears of US litigation, or any long drawn out litigation, for that matter, NAFTA has "dispute resolution panels." These panels look at whether or not the NAFTA countries participant is being treated fairly. Under President Trump, the US has claimed that "US court's sovereignty is eroded." He would do away with the panel altogether. Canada and Mexico want to keep them of course.
Read MoreThe Sanctions, under President Obama, the first U.S. President to visit since the embargo, authorized specific licenses for travel conditions and other transactions directly related to attendance or professional meetings in Cuba. This did not change the sanctions, but simply softened them. With a change of policy came diplomatic travel which included increase in tourist industries; with U.S. businesses going in and Cuban entrepreneurs opening up their homes for restaurants and cars for joyrides.
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