Corporate Indemnification

Corporate Indemnification

In North Carolina, pursuant to General Statutes Chapter 55 Part 8, corporations can indemnify their directors, officers, employees, and agents. Indemnification is an agreement between the corporation and its employee to limit the personal liability of the employee...
Proposed Rules on Classifying Employees

Proposed Rules on Classifying Employees

The Department of Labor has announced new rules it is presenting for proposed rulemaking related to what is an employee and what is an independent contractor. These are simply rules that are published as not final but meant for comment from the public about their...
The Inflation Reduction Act 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act 2022

On August 16, 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law and allocated $80 billion to fund the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over the next 10 years. With the new funding, the IRS announced plans to hire an estimated 87,000 new employees over the same...
The Crown Act

The Crown Act

In 2019, the results of a study conducted by Dove concluded that Black women were disproportionately affected by workplace hairstyling policies and procedures. Survey results revealed that Black women were 50 percent more likely than their non-Black colleagues to be...