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When is Equal Pay Day for social sector leaders in your state?

Candid

Equal Pay Day is a symbolic day created by the National Committee on Pay Equity to increase awareness about the gender wage gap. District of Columbia. Specifically, this day marks how far into the year a woman must work to receive the same wage that a man received the previous year. This year, U.S. 100,470.50. 110,454.00.

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Groups Concerned Pending Texas Bill Could Weaken LGBTQ Protections

Associations Now

Unlike 21 other states and the District of Columbia, Texas employment discrimination laws don’t explicitly protect LGBTQ workers. The bill has been advanced by the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee and is now eligible to be taken up by the full Senate.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 4.5.19

Reid All About it

Navigating the Universe of Employee Medical Leave in DC: A Nonprofit’s Guide to the District of Columbia’s Universal Paid Leave Act (UPLA) and Other Employee Leave Laws (online and Washington DC). Host: ASAE Healthcare Community Committee. *All times are Eastern Daylight Time unless otherwise noted.

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Cannabis Conundrum: Pharmacists Investigate How to Manage Medical Marijuana

Associations Now

Currently, 20 states plus the District of Columbia have laws allowing physicians to prescribe marijuana for medical use. Overseen by NASP’s Professional Practice Committee, the task force volunteers will also identify areas of integration with current specialty prescription therapy for patients with chronic diseases.

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New Trucking Rules Take Effect, Face Industry Legal Challenge

Associations Now

“These provisions will improve the current situation, even if only incrementally,” Joan Claybrook, consumer cochair of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, said last month in a statement at a House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure hearing on the impact of the hours-of-service regulations. A decision is pending in the U.S.

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Retailers Push for Uniform Data-Breach Notification Law

Associations Now

As it stands, 47 states, the District of Columbia, and several U.S. The Data Security Act of 2014 , the latest attempt, has been stuck in the Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs since January. Several proposed data-breach bills have sought to consolidate the various state laws, but all have failed.

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Pediatrics Group Revisits Marijuana Policy

Associations Now

a member of AAP’s Committee on Substance Abuse and a coauthor of the policy statement, said in a news release. “We know marijuana can be very harmful to adolescent health and development. Making it more available to adults—even if restrictions are in place—will increase the access for teens,“ Seth Ammerman, M.D.,