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Taking Your Small Business International? Read This First

Foreign Corrupt Practices FCPA: The Abridged Version At its core, the FCPA is about prohibition. Prohibition of what exactly? That’s a great question. Generally, the FCPA states that a business entity, or registered participant within, cannot give anything of monetary value to foreign officials, foreign political parties or candidates, or

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U.S. Court of Appeals Rules Extreme Obesity Not a Disability; What Small Business Owners Need to Know

In Richardson v. Chicago Transit Authority, the plaintiff (former employee) filed under the federal employment anti-discrimination law with the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). The national employment anti-discrimination law covers an employee or applicant with a disability. The law also prohibits discrimination based on sexual identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race,

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