Department of Labor recovers $59K in back wages for 64 Mississippi home care workers, assesses $7K in penalties to employer for repeat violations

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Employer’s address:             Plantation Pointe Retirement Community                                                  81 Windsor Boulevard                                              

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EPA penalizes Town of Coulee Dam over $70,000 for Clean Water Act violations

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EPA penalizes Town of Coulee Dam over $70,000 for Clean Water Act violations Wastewater plant failed to meet basic requirements of pollutant discharge permit October 26, 2023 Contact Information R10 Public Affairs Office (R10_Press_Team@epa.gov) SEATTLE – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the Town of Coulee Dam, Washington will pay $70,881 for violations

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CISA Releases New Resource to Help Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Develop Supply Chain Resilience Plans

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October 23, 2023, WASHINGTON – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a new resource guide today, Empowering Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMB): A Resource Guide for Developing a Resilient Supply Chain Risk Management Plan, which provides Information and Communications Technology (ICT) SMBs with a starting point develop and tailor a supply chain risk management

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ESMA assesses market developments in DeFi and explores the smart contracts system

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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets and securities regulator, today publishes two articles on decentralised finance (DeFi), one on developments and risks in the EU market and another on a methodology for the categorisation of smart contracts. These articles highlight important risks to consumers, new forms of market abuse, and

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ESMA provides analysis on issuers’ potential benefits from an ESG pricing effect

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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets and securities regulator, today publishes an article on the European sustainable debt market, analysing the existence of an ESG pricing effect (‘the Greenium’) across different types of sustainable-labelled debt instruments.   In the article, ESMA notes that it cannot confirm a systematic pricing benefit

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