For some time now, roughly more than a decade, there have been plenty of think pieces over the demise of One Day International cricket.
The 50-over format once attracted huge crowds, an incredibly hot ticket with seemingly never-ending series contested all over the world, before being supplanted by the faster T20 played over three hours.
Both chambers of the North Carolina Legislature voted to pass the North Carolina Budget Bill for Fiscal Year 2023-24 and 2024-25. The bill is now with Governor Roy Cooper.
We are pleased by the support we have received from the state legislature, which includes the following (note that "R" indicates recurring and "NR" non-recurring):
California's law on overtime pay differs substantially from the proposed rule on overtime pay recently issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, so employers will need to pay close attention to the details of both to remain in compliance.
It's important to understand that federal law does not pre-empt state law on overtime pay. "This means that the most employee-favorable law, whether arising under state or federal law, will apply," said John Skousen, an attorney with Fisher Phillips in Irvine, Calif., and Dallas.
On August 11, 2023, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ("PWFA").
The EEOC's proposed regulations address numerous aspects of the PWFA, including conditions covered under the PWFA, definitions of key terms, and examples of reasonable accommodations.
Science writers like to suggest that anyone can understand the intuition behind theories such as special relativity and quantum mechanics, if only they will read this book, or that essay. Don’t believe them—I’ve tried.
You might object that surely economics is not as hard as modern physics. Yes, that’s true in one sense—you do not need an extremely high IQ to understand economics.
In New Jersey, residents pay a median of $8,797 — the highest of all U.S. states — based on data provided to CNBC Make It. In Alabama, the median property tax bill is only $646.
The varying totals were calculated based on five years of Census data as of 2021, the most recent available.
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Even after the ending of COVID curbs, which weighed heavily on revenues and sentiment in 2022, the percentage of surveyed U.S. firms optimistic about the five-year China business outlook fell to 52%, according to the annual survey published by the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Shanghai.
A Danish artist who delivered two framed blank canvases titled "Take the Money and Run" must repay the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art about $70,000 it had given him to reproduce artworks involving physical currency, a Copenhagen court ruled on Monday.
The museum had commissioned the artist, Jens Haaning, to recreate two of his earlier works, "An Average Austrian Year Income" (2007) and "An Average Danish Annual Income" (2010), which displayed cash in euros and Danish kroner.
The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division is proposing to update and revise the Fair Labor Standards Act regulations implementing the minimum wage and overtime pay exemptions for executive, administrative, and professional employees.
The DOL believes these changes will make an additional 3.6 million workers eligible for overtime.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released proposed regulations regarding broker reporting for digital assets, including expansions of and additions to certain definitions, rules, and requirements. The IRS seeks comments on the proposed regulations by October 30, 2023.
Misericordia University has announced the addition of Business Economics to its list of academic programming for Fall 2024, which offers new academic opportunities with a range of professional applications.
“Economics is one of the fastest growing majors in the U.S.,” said Zhen Ma, Ph.D., associate professor of Business at Misericordia University.
Calculating payroll taxes is one of your most important responsibilities as an employer. Learn the basics of calculating payroll by hand.
Calculating your employees’ gross pay is just the first step in the lengthy process of running payroll. Employers must also calculate, withdraw, hold in trust and file payroll taxes, then provide both the IRS and employees with the correct tax-filing paperwork on a regular schedule.
The last few years have put accountants to the test. They had to quickly pivot to help small business owners navigate several challenges, such as new laws and regulations, hiring shortages, inflation, and supply chain issues, to name a few.
But one thing is clear: Accountants are in a unique position. They have access to the balance sheet of a small business — and the insight that comes with it.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - U.S. business inventories were unchanged in July as companies continued to carefully manage stocks in anticipation of weak demand because of higher interest rates.
The unchanged reading in business inventories followed a 0.1% dip in June, the Commerce Department said on Thursday.
After waiting months for an update of overtime pay regulations, restaurateurs have finally learned how many more of their salaried employees will likely be entitled to time-and-a-half pay for hours exceeding 40 per week.
The pair spend much of Working Lunch, their weekly government-affairs podcast, explaining why restaurateurs can breath easier now that the overtime changes have been spelled out by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
ENR's 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR's 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics
The IRS is launching an effort to crack down on 1,600 millionaires and 75 large business partnerships that owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes
"If you pay your taxes on time it should be particularly frustrating when you see that wealthy filers are not," Werfel told reporters in a call previewing the announcement.
The United States Financial Accounting Standards Board has unanimously approved rules for accounting for the fair value of companies' cryptocurrency holdings, according to media reports. The rules will go into effect in 2025.
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BAT, which controlled just under 25% of the Russian tobacco market, said it had now formally agreed to sell the business and expects the transaction to complete within the next month.
"Upon completion, BAT will no longer have a presence in Russia or Belarus and will receive no financial gain from ongoing sales in these markets," it said in a statement.
Last month, Drake gifted a fan a a Birkin bag , and another Chanel purse during his L.A. tour spot at Crypto.com Arena. Priscela Izquierdo thanked the rapper after she posted a sign and noted that it was her birthday. “Drake Gave Me a Chanel Bag on My Birthday,” it read.
Drake is readying his new album For All the Dogs , which will serve as a follow-up to his last solo effort, 2021’s Certified Lover Boy .
Japan's Ministry of Defense requested on Thursday a record defense budget of $53 billion for Fiscal Year 2024, an increase over FY2023's budget of $46.8 billion.
Among the programs and acquisitions to be funded are construction of two Aegis-equipped destroyers, joint development with the United States of the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI), acquisition of precision-guided missiles, construction of a new class of frigates, acquisition of F-35A and F-35B ...
WARREN COUNTY, Iowa — A group of 911 dispatchers in Warren County claim in a newly filed lawsuit they were wrongfully denied overtime pay over the course of three years.
Eleven current and former dispatchers, all employed by Warren County, believe they have been improperly classified as exempt from overtime provisions, as laid out in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Iowa Wage Payment Collection Law (IWPCL), since at least January 2020.
The Federal Reserve "didn't do their homework" and mischaracterized the spike in inflation that has plagued the U.S. economy over the last two years, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.
U.S. inflation started to gain pace in early 2021 as the economy emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic , rising from an annual 1.2% in December 2020 to a 40-year high of 9.1% in June 2022.
A tax relief bill that aims to help Missouri senior citizens by freezing their real estate taxes went into effect on Aug. 28. Many counties around the state — including Greene County — are seeking clarity on the bill's "vague" language.
Senate Bill 190 has created confusion around its implementation — leaving many wondering who is eligible for the tax freeze, what taxing entities will be impacted and when the freeze will go into effect.
