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Association Brain Food Weekly: 4.5.19

Reid All About it

Human contact is becoming a luxury good ,” said Nellie Bowles at the New York Times. 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). Tue 4/9 at 12:00/12:30 p.m.

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Tech and Safety Groups Differ on Navigation App Regulation

Associations Now

They don’t have the budget or the structure to oversee both Silicon Valley and the auto industry,” Catherine McCullough, executive director of the Intelligent Car Coalition , told The New York Times. As of June 2014, 44 states and the District of Columbia have banned text-messaging while driving, and 13 states plus D.C.

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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

For example, the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) undertook a six-year lobbying campaign in New York to pass better protections for domestic workers. New York is the epicenter ii of funding for workers’ rights nonprofits. Source: Foundation 1000. Next in line were the W.K.