Day: January 18, 2022

By Joshua L. Weiner In response to an increasingly older workforce and retirement ages, on Oct. 4, 2021, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill expanding the scope of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (“LAD”) by eliminating decades-old provisions that permitted employers to make age-based employment decisions in certain circumstances. This legislation seeks to serve the laudatory goal of protecting older workers against workplace discrimination in the Garden State. For private-sector employers, this legislation amends the law to extend protections to older workers by eliminating a provision in… Read More “Older workers in N.J. have new protections to help them find a job, get promoted | Opinion”

Below are some comments by Mr. Kunal Sawhney, CEO, Kalkine Group on US markets as of today. Q4 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Comments On The US Markets____ US stocks are expected to start the week with a mixed tone on Tuesday, continuing with last week’s trends. US markets remained closed on Monday due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On Tuesday, the 10-year Treasury bond yields hit a two-year high of 1.834% from 1.771% on Friday. It means investors might continue to rotate stocks appropriate for a low-interest rate regime. It also means technology stocks would continue to waver … Read More “The US Markets As Of Today – Commentary”

By Trend Azerbaijan records price fluctuations in several food products in December 2021, the Azerbaijani State Statistics Committee told Trend. The consumer price index for non-food products amounted to 100.7 percent in Azerbaijan in December 2021 compared to the previous month while compared to December 2020 – 107.7 percent. According to the State Statistics Committee, the prices for buckwheat, bread, flour, pasta, rice, chicken, beef and lamb, fresh and frozen fish, condensed and raw milk, cheese, curd, yogurt, sour cream, chicken eggs, butter and sunflower oil, margarine, pomegranates, ban… Read More “Azerbaijan shares data on prices of various food products for 12M2021”

By Lindsay Rogers Whether it harkens back to grade school and the promise of a weeklong sojourn on your parents’ dime or it’s just the prospect of a reprieve — however brief — from colder weather, nothing matches the anticipation of a springtime trip. And while the pandemic has put a bit of a damper on things, spring breakers still flocked to the airport in 2021, and — as evidenced by an Expedia report suggesting that that 37 percent of Americans feel comfortable traveling in spite of the new variants — it likely won’t this year either. Brandon Berkson knows a thing or two about travel. After … Read More “The 7 Best Travel Destinations for Spring 2022, According to Hotel Expert Brandon Berkson”

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -British employers hired a record number of staff last month and labour shortages deepened, increasing the chance that the Bank of England will raise interest rates again next month, but pay was squeezed by rapidly rising inflation. Tuesday’s data suggests the surge in cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in December did little to dent the resilience of Britain’s job market. The figures were also unlikely to ease the BoE’s concern that a rising inflation tide will be slow to ebb. Concern about possible labour shortages and pay pressures over the medium… Read More “UK sees record job creation but inflation squeezes wages”