On December 1, 2020, the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) proposed to adopt listing rules related to board diversity after determining that the national market and the public interest would benefit from a regulatory...more
California’s Assembly Bill (“AB”) 979 is set to make waves both within the state and across the country as a groundbreaking new law that would require companies to diversify their boards and reserve seats for directors from...more
On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced, as part of its ongoing initiative to modernize Regulation S-K disclosure, amendments that add human capital resources as a separate disclosure topic,...more
9/1/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Governance ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employee Benefits ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Human Capital ,
Paid Family Leave Law ,
Public Safety ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-K ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Workplace Safety
The year 2020 was already predicted to be a year of heightened focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) topics for public companies—and that was before the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread protests galvanized by...more