By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli t is summertime and the schools are out. You get a call from an eager college student offering to intern at your company for free. It seems like a win-win situation, right? Your company wins by having someone finally get to those little details and back burner...
By Eugene G. Bernardo II and Alexandra W. Pezzello Under rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) last September that go into effect July 1, 2014, municipal advisors must now register with the SEC. The rules are the result of provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act and are intended to provide additional protections...
The American Society for Testing and Materials (“ASTM”) standard for Environmental Assessments was revised in 2013 for the first time since 2005. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has now adopted the updated standard, which the Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) had already adopted as consistent with its All Appropriate Inquiries Rule. While the...
The data breaches that Target, Michael’s, Nieman Marcus and other large companies have suffered recently have gained a great deal of attention in the media. These public and costly embarrassments serve as reminders that all businesses should have a comprehensive information security policy and should closely monitor their servers and third party data interfaces for...
February 3, 2014 – Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP (PS&H) is pleased to announce that Christopher Currier, David Pellegrino and Alicia Samolis have been elected Partners of the Firm. “We are very pleased to have Chris, Dave and Alicia join the partnership. They are outstanding attorneys who have great expertise in commercial lending, banking and employment...
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli Effective January 1, 2014, all Rhode Island employers must allow their employees four (4) weeks of time off per year under the Temporary Caregiver Insurance (“TCI”) Law. Like Temporary Disability Insurance (“TDI”), the program will be financed through employee payroll deductions and administered by the Department of Labor...
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli We alerted you a few weeks ago that while we were all excited about the prospect of bi-weekly pay, we were still waiting for the required application to appear on the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (“DLT”) website. It has!! The application must be filed with...
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli A few weeks ago we alerted you to the fact that although the somewhat infamous bi-weekly pay law was set to go into effect on January 1, 2014, neither the required application nor the governing regulations had been finalized by the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training...
December 11, 2012 – Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP, a leading business law and litigation firm with offices in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, has leased 30,000 + sq. ft of office space in the Textron Building at 40 Westminster Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The firm has outgrown its current space in Providence and needs to...
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli With January 1, 2014 fast approaching, many Rhode Island employers excited about the prospect of moving to a bi-weekly payroll system are wondering how to make the switch. The new law requires the filing of a petition, a showing of good cause and approval from the Department of Labor...
