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Disclosure Requirements In Times Of The Pandemic

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/03/20

The economic impact of the Covid 19 pandemic creates obligations for a large number of companies to ad hoc publicity in accordance with Art. 17 MAR, which has already existed in a number of cases. The uncertainty associated with the current situation...

FDA and TTB Take Steps to Ease Hand Sanitizer Shortage

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/03/20

Food and Drug Administration - Although some distilleries have tried to pitch in to produce hand sanitizer in the wake of a national shortage caused by the coronavirus public health emergency, hand sanitizers are actually regulated by the Food and...

Alert: Compensation Arrangements in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/03/20

As COVID-19 spreads throughout the United States and around the globe, companies are wondering what they can or should be doing to ensure the on-going effectiveness of their equity incentive and other compensation plans. We have listed the key steps...

Virginia Opens Door To Collective Bargaining For Public Employees

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/03/20

The Virginia General Assembly has passed legislation that paves the way for Virginia counties, cities, and towns to adopt local ordinances or resolutions authorizing collective bargaining with labor unions on behalf of public officers and employees....

Coronavirus (COVID-19) FAQs for Employers

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/03/20

Can you ask an employee if they’re infected with the coronavirus? Can you send them home? Take their temperature? And what does “clean” mean, exactly? Our coronavirus task force collects answers from the CDC, OSHA, and EEOC for these questions and...

SBA Offers Small Business COVID-19 Emergency Disaster Loans

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/03/20

Last week, Congress passed the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act to provide relief for the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of this Act, Congress provided the Small Business Administration (SBA) authority to offer...

Is Your Force Majeure Or Unavoidable Delay Notice Ready?

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/03/20

As the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, and the associated illness spreads around the world and the number of confirmed cases in the United States rises, disruptions to construction projects are inevitable. These disruptions may come from any...

N.C., S.C. & Ga. Adjust Unemployment Insurance in Response to COVID-19

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/03/20

This week, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia made changes to their unemployment insurance systems to help workers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. In North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order that makes it easier...

GAO Finds That DoD Research Centers Are Failing To Follow All Data Protection Measures Of New Pilot Program

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/03/20

On March 6, 2020, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) published a report evaluating a new Department of Defense (“DoD”) pilot program that provides a more streamlined process for Federal Funded Research and Development Centers (“FFRDCs”) to...

Unified Patent Court update: German Federal Constitutional Court ruling

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/03/20

Today, on 20 March 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court in its decision on the Unified Patent Court ruled on the constitutional complaint against the law approving the agreement of 19 February 2013 on a Unified Patent Court (UPC) and declared it...

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