Whether you run a nonprofit or serve on the Board, you have a responsibility to make sure the organization is in compliance. There never seems to be enough time to step back, take stock, and launch that preventative compliance review. At a minimum, there are things that any nonprofit can do – and every nonprofit should do:...
Client AlertsEmployment & LaborBlitz for 6: Rhode Island TCI Benefits to Increase to a Maximum of Six Weeks Beginning January 1, 2023
November 22, 2022
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli With the new year just a handful of weeks away, employers should take note of one notable change to the Rhode Island Temporary Caregiver Insurance Program (“TCI”) taking effect in 2023. Beginning January 1, 2023, the maximum amount of time eligible employees may collect paid caregiver benefits...
Client AlertsEmployment & LaborThe NLRB is Back at it Again: New Proposal Broadens Definition of “Joint Employer”
September 13, 2022
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli On September 7, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) published a proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) rescinding and replacing its current rule for determining joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act (“Act”). If adopted in its current form, the Proposed Rule would significantly expand the conditions under...
Client AlertsNonprofitPSH Assists The Beacon Mutual Insurance Company with Establishing The Beacon Foundation
July 21, 2022
For over thirty years, Beacon Mutual has been the leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance in Rhode Island. Beacon Mutual makes it a part of its mission to care about Rhode Islanders. Now, they will fulfill that mission in part through funding The Beacon Foundation. The Beacon Foundation, through the issuance of donations and grants, will...
Client AlertsCommercial FinanceRhode Island Modernizes its Receivership Law By Enacting the Commercial Receivership Act
July 1, 2022
By Daniel E. Burgoyne On June 20, 2022, Rhode Island Governor Daniel J. McKee signed into law the Rhode Island Commercial Receivership Act (“CRA”), which updates and modernizes Rhode Island receivership practice. Pub. L. 2002, ch. 107 and 108. The CRA is based upon the Uniform Law Commission’s 2015 Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act. The uniform act is...
Client AlertsNonprofitGot Crypto?
June 24, 2022
By Elizabeth Manchester Charities increasingly receive inquiries from donors regarding the entity’s willingness to accept cryptocurrency (“crypto”) donations. In the wake of the pandemic, charities should consider ways to diversify fundraising efforts in a compliant manner. Charities can best prepare themselves with the following steps to evaluate and accept cryptocurrency donations. Review and revise gift...
Client AlertsEmployment & LaborRhode Island Employers can No Longer Discipline Employees for Out-of-Work Recreational Weed Use
June 21, 2022
By Alicia Samolis and Michael Gamboli Pursuant to the new law legalizing recreational marijuana in Rhode Island, private employers are now prohibited from firing or taking other disciplinary action against an employee for recreational marijuana use outside the workplace. The narrow exceptions to the prohibition are as follows: Employees cannot be “under the influence” at work....
Client AlertsCommercial FinanceHow to Prevent Frivolous Appeals from Derailing Receivership Sales of Rhode Island Real Estate
June 15, 2022
By Daniel E. Burgoyne and Christian R. Jenner A pair of recent decisions from the Rhode Island Superior Court’s Business Calendar, authored by Associate Justices Richard J. Licht and Brian P. Stern, demonstrate how a secured lender in a receivership can combat frivolous appeals that might otherwise threaten a sale of its real estate collateral....
Client AlertsEmployment & LaborRIDLT Proposes Regulations and Issues Compliance Guidance for the New Pay Equity Law
June 3, 2022
The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training’s (“RIDLT”) much anticipated Proposed Regulations (“Regulations”) to the Rhode Island Pay Equity Law (the “Act”) have arrived. As we previously discussed, on July 6, 2021, Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee signed the Act into law, which goes into effect on January 1, 2023. The crux of the Act prohibits an...
With a stroke of his pen on Wednesday, Governor McKee signed the bill that dramatically changes the landscape for marijuana cultivation, possession, sale and use in Rhode Island. Many of the changes are effective immediately. There have been many failed attempts at such legislation over the past decade, but momentum has grown over the past...
