Mar 9, 2022 | Business Insights
What Happens if my Employees Move Out of a HUBZone After Certification? What Happens If my Business Merges with Another Company? Once certified, a HUBZone contractor must monitor the residences of its employees to ensure compliance with the Small Business...
Feb 23, 2022 | Business Insights
Updated January 31, 2024 Becoming HUBZone Certified: Background Intended to fuel small business growth in historically underutilized geographic areas, the government set a goal of awarding at least 3% of federal contract dollars to Historically Underutilized Business...
Aug 11, 2021 | Business & Finance, Business Insights, Employment Law
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”) is straightforward in its prohibition: [N]o person shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination [in] any academic, extracurricular,...
Jul 12, 2021 | Business & Finance, Business Insights, Employment Law
The rapid evolution of Virginia workplace laws continues with the Virginia General Assembly’s passage of HB 1848, which extends employee workplace protections under the Virginia Human Rights Act (“VHRA”) to include a prohibition on discrimination against individuals...
Jul 1, 2021 | Business & Finance, Business Insights, Employment Law
In our blog posts last year, we chronicled the sea change in employment laws that has been underway in Virginia, in areas such as misclassifying employees as independent contractors and workplace discrimination. Virginia has had a well-earned reputation as a state...
Jun 8, 2021 | Business & Finance, Business Insights, Employment Law
With a significant percentage of individuals now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, businesses are beginning to reopen or expand in-the-office activity in Northern Virginia and across the Commonwealth. On May 28, 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...