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29
May
By Jorge Lopez, Shireen Karcutskie and Elizabeth Whiting | Littler
In an announcement on Thursday, May 16, 2019, President Trump unveiled an outline of his new legislative plan to modernize the nation’s immigration framework, promising to “establish a new legal immigration system that protects American wages, promotes American values, and attracts the best and brightest from all around the world.”1 In introducing the plan, President Trump announced, “e are proposing an immigration plan that puts the jobs, wages, and safety of...
28
May
By Brian Johnston, Mason Hayes & Curran
We have survived the first year of living with the GDPR. After all the panic and hard work, we look at what has happened in the last 12 months and what can be learnt.
Security breach notifications a plenty
What has happened?
Over 89,000 notifications had been filed since May 2018. With a regime where over-notification suffers no penalty, but failure to notify could incur a fine, one could not blame businesses for taking this approach.
This approach, however,...
28
May
Vulcan Consulting – Post European election analysis
From Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 May 2019 all 28 Member States of the European Union went to the polls to cast their votes in the European elections. While results are still coming in from some jurisdictions, we now know the following: this is the most politically fragmented European election in history.
What you need to know
Populists win: As predicated, Eurosceptic, anti-immigrant and nationalist parties nearly won nearly a third of the seats with 31 –...
24
May
By: Miram Hall, Bisnow New York
Lauren Calandriello’s path to commercial real estate was, in her own words, kind of random. Now a JRT Realty Group real estate associate, she was introduced to the firm’s CEO, Jodi Pulice, after taking a college study abroad program in Italy alongside Pulice’s son back in 2012. Pulice, always on the lookout for young talent, invited her in for a job interview two years later.
“ likes to hire young women into the business and...
24
May
Latest developments
Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that she will resign on 7 June.
A contest will then resume between multiple candidates in the Conservative Party deciding who will replace her as leader of the Party and as the new Prime Minister.
Though it remains to be decided and worked out, the contest is likely to be completed by the end of July at which point a new PM will take office.
Theresa May will remain PM until...
24
May
Key Events This Week
May announces resignation setting off leadership contest
Theresa May ended months of speculation about her leadership this morning as she gave an emotional statement confirming she would resign as Leader of the Conservative Party on June 7th. She will remain as Prime Minister until a new successor is chosen by Conservative party members with the expectation that over a dozen candidates may enter the race.
The Prime Minister’s fate was sealed this week after a bruising rejection from...
23
May
President Donald Trump today announced that his administration would delay for six months any action on the determination of the Department of Commerce (Commerce) in the Section 232 national security investigation into imports of automobiles and automobile parts.
This investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 was self-initiated by Commerce in June 2018 (see Trump and Trade Update of June 1, 2018) and, while a final report and determination was presented to the president on February...
23
May
At the International Conference on Climate Action – ICCA 2019 – in Heidelberg, Germany, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and the European Investment Bank have announced the 20 shortlisted cities of the Global Climate City Challenge.
Launched at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco in September 2018, the Global Climate Cities Challenge aims to strengthen technical assistance and financing for climate action projects especially in cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America as well...
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