A battle over changes in overtime pay for Washington's agricultural workers continues to play out across the state.
The IAFF is welcoming a federal legislative initiative that addresses longstanding shortfalls in Canada's airport firefighting regulations that needlessly jeopardize the safety of the flying public.
Private member's motion M-96, introduced by B.C. Liberal MP Ken Hardie, asks the federal government to bring the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs) up to international standards for airport rescue and firefighting at Canada's major airports.
Hong Kong's leader has cut taxes for some homebuyers and stock traders to boost markets as the city seeks to maintain its reputation as a global financial hub
Chief Executive John Lee said the extra stamp duties imposed on non-resident buyers and current local homeowners looking to buy additional properties would be halved, the first easing over the past decade since property market-cooling measures were introduced.
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Oct 25 (Reuters) - India's accounting regulator is investigating an EY member firm that audits five companies that are part of billionaire Gautam Adani's eponymous conglomerate, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
As soon as those who want to divert public school money heard that there would be a special session of the legislature they ran for the lobby of the State Capitol.
They call themselves the “choice” group because “choice” carries a lot of propaganda value in a society that treasures freedom to choose.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Shalanda D. Young today released the final budget results for fiscal year (FY) 2023.
After atypically strong growth in revenues in 2022, driven by record-high capital gains receipts and the historic recovery from the pandemic, revenues in 2023 fell to 16.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), with individual and corporate receipts returning to lower levels in line with ...
WILLIAMSBURG, VA – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment in a Virginia federal court to recover $205,180 in back wages and liquidated damages from a Williamsburg restaurant that shortchanged 62 employees of their overtime wages intentionally.
The court action follows an investigation by the department's Wage and Hour Division that found FFT Restaurant Group LLC, operator of Food for Thought and owner Howard Hopkins paid kitchen staff straight-time rates for all hours worked, including hours over 40 in a workweek, which denied them ...
The government approved regulations on Friday that will allow it to temporarily shut down foreign news channels during the current state of emergency due to the war with Hamas, if it believes the outlet is damaging national security.
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi led the charge to pass these regulations in order to shut down the Al Jazeera news channel specifically, which he claims has damaged national security since the war began.
Mona Ahmadiani, Ph.D., previously a post-doctoral research associate in the department, has been officially added to department rolls as a research assistant professor. Along with her expertise in environmental and resource economics, she is versed in well-being economics and applied economics.
Sacramento -- The California Franchise Tax Board today confirmed that most Californians have until November 16, 2023, to file and pay their tax year 2022 taxes to avoid penalties.
FTB generally conforms to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) postponement periods for presidentially declared disasters.
CARMEL, Ind. , Oct. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CNO Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CNO ) has named Michellen Wildin senior vice president of accounting effective October 23, 2023 , and chief accounting officer (CAO) effective January 1, 2024 .
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The forecast is consistent with Honeywell's rolling 10-year projection provided last year, but the value of jets expected to be delivered has increased by $4 billion to $278 billion, the company said in its annual Global Business Aviation Outlook.
Private aviation witnessed a surge in newcomers, both in users and buyers, after the COVID-19 pandemic lifted demand for private flying as the wealthy took control of their travel.
Cit i Private Bank recently surveyed 200 affluent families around the world. What each of them had: a net worth in excess of $25 million. What 62 percent of them didn't have: a plan for guiding the next generation to be a responsible stakeholder in that wealth.
Family wealth in the United States totaled $140 trillion last year, according to a report by Cerulli Associates. And no wonder. Over the past 40 years, the S&P 500 index has soared, from 144.3 at the beginning of 1983 to 3960.66 on the first of this year. Even home prices have risen 500-fold.
Mayor Brandon Johnson put forward a $16.6 billion spending plan for 2024 on Wednesday that eliminates a $538 million shortfall and prioritizes new investments in affordable housing, mental health services and environmental justice.
Johnson's first spending plan does not include a property tax hike to keep up with the rising rate of inflation, or new taxes or fee hikes to cover the city's budget deficit, which has been swollen by the arrival cost of caring for migrants sent to Chicago from the southern border and soaring ...
California's new Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) is set to begin advance regulatory review of certain health care transactions beginning January 1, 2024.
As discussed in our previous post , determining whether notice must be submitted requires a multi-step analysis.
The law applies to "Health Care Entities" which include certain health care providers and payers.
Claudia Goldin '67, who dreamt of becoming an archaeologist or a microbiologist until she took an economics course at Cornell, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for her study of women's progress in the workforce.
Goldin's pioneering research has revealed the reasons for gender gaps in labor force participation and earnings. She is the third woman to win the economics Nobel, and the first to win it individually rather than sharing the prize. She is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
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PARIS, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published a multilateral treaty on Wednesday that would replace a hodge-podge of national digital services taxes if ratified by enough countries.
The release of the text puts pressure on the United States in particular, where a two-thirds majority in the deeply divided Senate is needed to ratify treaties.
The accounting and finance talent shortage has prompted many CFOs to reevaluate their approach to staffing.
The search for quality talent, something that nearly every industry has had issues with over the last few years, continues to hinder finance leaders and their teams.
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The tech company joins other major corporations that have recently decided to separate business units to form distinct, publicly traded companies to allow for more targeted investments and operations.
"Separating our principal businesses will improve our ability to create value for all our stakeholders," said John Chen, executive chair & CEO of BlackBerry, adding that the "new proposed structure will further increase both their operational agility and ability to focus on ...
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The rule, published by the U.S. Department of Labor in September, would raise the minimum salary threshold for worker exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act by about 55 percent, leading more non-teaching employees to qualify for overtime pay if they work more than 40 hours in a week.
I n 1987, industry bigwigs and civil servants noted that American semiconductor manufacturing was struggling. Japan was stealing market share and jobs, threatening national security and economic growth.
Boosters say that industrial policies can work if appropriately designed. They point to South Korea.
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MANCHESTER, England, Oct 3 (Reuters) - British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Tuesday he would love to lower taxes in the run-up to a national election expected next year, but added that any tax cut at the moment would be inflationary.
Hunt said that reducing taxes at a fiscal event in November would not be possible even if the government met a target to halve inflation this year.
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Prager Metis CPAs LLP, a Top 100 Firm based in New York and its California affiliate, with violating auditor independence rules on more than 200 audits, reviews and exams.
The complaint alleged that Prager was not independent from its clients for those engagements, as required under the federal securities laws.
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The transaction, the financial details of which were not immediately known, will also see Asia-focussed HSBC taking over "a few hundreds" of Citi's China-based staff, said one of the sources.
The deal could be announced as soon as next month, the two sources said, who could not be named as they were not authorised to speak to the media.
