Last week, GM appointed Mary Barra as its first woman CEO, the Pew Research Center issued a report showing that the gap between women’s and men’s pay widens the longer women remain in the work force, and Advocates for Children of New Jersey reported that working families in New Jersey spend about a quarter of their income on childcare.
Monthly Archives: December 2013
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December 17, 2013
Lefèvre Pelletier & associés advises Société de financement pour le développement agricole and Crédit Agricole du Maroc, in connection with investment financing granted by Agence Française de Développement
Société de Financement pour le Développement Agricole (organization for financing investments in the agriculture sector – SFDA) took out a financing of EUR 20.000.000 granted by the Agence Française de Développement (French Agency for Development – AFD) and guaranteed by Crédit Agricole du Maroc which is the mother-company of SFDA.
This financing is granted by the AFD, to support the implementation of the Green Morocco Plan, without any guarantee from the Kingdom of Morocco.
The law firm Lefèvre Pelletier & associés advised SFDA and Crédit Agricole du Maroc. The team was composed of Alain GAUVIN (lawyer, partner) and Kawtar RAJI (lawyer, associate). More…
ILN Today Post
December 17, 2013
MANDATORY CPP INCREASE — NOT
There seems to be general agreement that some or even many middle income workers do not save enough for retirement. These are the people who not have a workplace pension, and have not saved sufficiently in tax-deferred programs or in taxable savings and other income-producing assets. At this time employers and employers contribute 9.9% of income up to the YMPE, 4.5% each. The maximum benefit at age 65 is just over a $1,000 per month, together with the OAS and GIS, is barely enough for a single person to live on and would certainly require a substantial decrease standard of living for middle income people. More…
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December 17, 2013
Paul Glassman Top Muncipal Law Attorney
Stradling bankruptcy and reorganization shareholder Paul R. Glassman has been named Top Municipal Law Attorney by The Daily Journal.
Mr. Glassman practices out of Stradling’s Santa Monica office. His most recent notable case is the City of San Bernardino’s bankruptcy proceedings. More…
ILN Today Post
December 17, 2013
SFKS news
The 3rd Business of IP Asia Forum, organized by Hong Kong SAR Government and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and the Design Center was successfully held in Hong Kong on 5th to 6th December 2013 with 1,800 participants from all over the world. These participants include IP owners, buyers and sellers, R&D professionals, finance and legal intermediaries, industrial associations and design and technology practitioners with focus on the trade aspects of IP. More…
December 16, 2013
ADA Accessibility Attestation Forms for FIDA (Medicare-Medicaid Advantage Duals) Plans
The Financial Alignment Initiative of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) is a test program designed to better coordinate care for dual Medicare-Medicaid enrollees by aligning the financing of Medicare and Medicaid. Pursuant to this initiative, states may partner with CMS to test one of two model programs for the coordination of Medicare and Medicaid benefits.
December 16, 2013
ADA Accessibility Attestation Forms for FIDA (Medicare-Medicaid Advantage Duals) Plans
The Financial Alignment Initiative of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) is a test program designed to better coordinate care for dual Medicare-Medicaid enrollees by aligning the financing of Medicare and Medicaid. Pursuant to this initiative, states may partner with CMS to test one of two model programs for the coordination of Medicare and Medicaid benefits.
December 16, 2013
Summary: The 2012-2013 Public Guardian and Trustee Annual Report
The B.C. Public Guardian and Trustee (“PGT”) recently issued its Annual Report for 2012-2013.
From 2012–2013, the PGT served approximately 30,300 clients and managed approximately $893 million of client assets. Most PGT clients have some vulnerability often resulting from their status as minors or mental incapability. Clients can include:
ILN Today Post
December 16, 2013
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate social responsibility (“CSR”), a new initiative under the Companies Act 2013 (“CA13”), is the process by which an organization thinks about and evolves its relationships with stakeholders for the common good, and demonstrates its commitment in this regard by adoption of appropriate business processes and strategies.
- CA13 requires that every Company having net worth of Rs. 500,00,00,000/- (Rupees Five Hundred Crore) or more, or turnover of Rs. 1000,00,00,000/- (Rupees One Thousand Crore) or more, or net profit of Rs. 5,00,00,000/- (Rupees Five Crore) or more, during any financial year, shall constitute a CSR Committee of 3 (three) or more directors, 1 (one) of which has to be an independent director, and the composition of such committee is required to be included in the Board’s report.
ILN Today Post
December 16, 2013
The end of the transitional period is looming: concerns for transitional security interests in personal property
The transitional period under the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (PPSA) ends at midnight on 30 January 2014 Australian Eastern Standard Time.
If a transitional security interest is not perfected by this time, it may not only lose its priority but may also be extinguished altogether.
Contact us to ensure that your transitional security interest is perfected. –More…
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