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The John Batchelor Show

#SmallBusinessAmerica: Regulation surge. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

Greenwich, London, England, the Whole World Time Keeper, a soundtrack for where the start of every day is measured,

0:09.0

where every single moment is counted.

0:12.0

A place where past and future collide. Seasons burst into life

0:16.7

at the strike of the hour, changing the color, the landscape and perspectives.

0:22.1

What better place then to spend time, let it fly, lose track

0:27.0

of it or just make it stand still for times like these again and again visit Greenwich to create your playlist of

0:35.7

experiences for 2024 visit Greenwich. I'm John back to with my colleague and friend Jean Marks, a small business columnist for the

0:48.8

Guardian newspaper, UK and US Edition, and for our hometown newspaper newspaper the Philadelphia Inquire. There are columns

0:56.4

that Gina has published over these last days and I'm going to start with the first

0:59.6

one workplace rules updated by the federal government about discrimination.

1:05.0

What is important? What is the risk here, Jane?

1:08.0

Very, very important that employers know this.

1:12.0

The EEOC has been very busy and they are focusing now on

1:16.6

harassment of your employees and they have issued an updated guidelines to the Civil Rights Act of 1965 that addresses

1:26.1

harassment of your employees, the behavior of you but more likely your employees to each

1:31.6

other, both in and out of the office.

1:35.2

Now these new rules have not come into effect yet, but they're expected to happen

1:39.5

before the end of this quarter.

1:41.4

And you must be prepared for them. and just to give you a couple examples

1:44.6

John if you have any say the LGBT Q workers in your office and they feel that other employees

1:50.8

are intentionally say misgendering them or harassing them in some way or

1:55.8

they're uncomfortable because you don't provide a non-gendered bathroom for example, that could be

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