By Michael A. Gamboli and Alicia J. Samolis Mental health issues in the workplace are at an all-time high. And with those issues come a slew of accommodation requests ranging from continued work from home to removal of stressful job duties to not appearing on camera during video calls. While the ADA accommodation process is exploited by...
By Madeline Ursini and Brian J. Reilly The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (“BEA”) conducts a benchmark survey on foreign direct investment every 5 years. The BE-12 survey is the BEA’s most comprehensive survey and produces statistics on the scale and effects of foreign-owned business activities in the United States. The most recent...
By Madeline Ursini, Brian J. Reilly and Lawrence J. Sheh In 2021, as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act in an effort to prevent and combat illicit activities such as money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and tax fraud. In furtherance of this goal, beginning on January 1,...
Partridge Snow & Hahn was recently announced by Providence Business News as one of the 2023 Best Places to Work in Rhode Island, according to a two-part survey process completed by Best Companies Group. This survey and awards program was designed to identify, recognize, and honor the best employers in Rhode Island, who’s actions benefit...
On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) ruled that an employer violated its employees’ rights under federal law by offering severance agreements that included standard confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions. By way of background, Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) protects the rights of non-management employees to engage in “concerted...
By Eugene G. Bernardo II and David M. DiSegna Legislation has been introduced in the United States House and Senate entitled the “No Tax Subsidies for Stadiums Act of 2023,” which would eliminate the tax exemption for bonds used to finance professional sports stadiums. The companion bills were introduced by Senators Lankford (R-OK) and Booker...
Effective as of January 1, 2023, amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) went into effect that impose additional obligations on businesses to safeguard the privacy of consumers’ personal information. The CCPA already provided consumers with a variety of rights, including the right to know the personal information collected about them, how...
By Paul M. Kessimian, Christian R. Jenner and Hannah Y. Amadei The duty to preserve potentially relevant documents and electronically stored information is an important obligation that arises in litigation, and one that litigants and their attorneys must not take lightly. But at what point does this duty arise? In a recent decision, Judge Salinger of...
President Biden recently signed into law the Secure 2.0 Act of 2022. The Act contains, in part, an expansion of the rules for qualified charitable distributions. A qualified charitable distribution (“QCD”) is a direct transfer of funds from an individual retirement account to a qualified charity. Two of the highlights, which are effective for the...
Partridge Snow & Hahn announces the promotion of attorneys David DiSegna, Daniel Marran, and Brian Reilly from Associate to Counsel. David joined PSH in 2017. He is focused in the areas of public finance, commercial finance, intellectual property, and business law. David represents clients in various roles, including bond counsel, underwriter’s or purchaser’s counsel, and borrower’s...
