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Eleventh Circuit Overturns Landmark Accessibility Decision in Winn-Dixie, Determines Certain Websites Are Not “Public Accommodations” Covered by Title III of the ADA

CFPB Monitor

On April 7, 2021, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Winn-Dixie Stores’ websites are not “public accommodations” and therefore are not subject to the accessibility requirements of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). known as the “WCAG 2.0”).

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Munchery Sued By Ex-Employees Over Shutdown

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The lawsuit , filed by former Munchery facilities worker Joshua Philips, cites the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, a U.S. labor law that requires employers with more than 100 employees to give notice 60 days ahead of mass layoffs.

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GAO Issues Report Finding that CFPB Needs to Assess the Impact of Recent Changes to its Fair Lending Activities

CFPB Monitor

During May 2021, the federal Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) issued a report (GAO-21-393) containing findings from its review of issues related to the CFPB’s oversight and enforcement of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (“ECOA”) and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (“HMDA”). The GAO also interviewed CFPB staff.

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Community banks trade group asks Trump Administration to curb fair lending enforcement

CFPB Monitor

The Independent Community Bankers of America issued a statement calling on the Trump administration “to rein in the overzealous application of fair lending laws.” Paul metropolitan area.

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2021 Tax Proposals

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On September 15, the House Ways and Means Committee approved the tax provisions of the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), the legislation intended to implement President Biden’s social and education reforms. This proposal includes transition rules that will generally apply the increased rate to capital gains and dividends recognized after Sept.

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Gender imbalance in economics: what next?

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Not enough young women seem to be taking up economics, even though an undergraduate degree in economics gives one of the highest lifetime return for women , along with medicine and law. The thin pipeline is also leaky. While 33% of economics lecturers at UK universities were women in 2018, only 15% of professors were women.

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‘Danger zone’: the warnings designed to protect women at UK business events

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Codes of conduct are on the rise, and have a focus on reputational risk as well as on harassment When more than 1,300 lending bosses, regulators and MPs descended on Grosvenor House hotel on Park Lane in London for a black-tie dinner in late February, they arrived informed.