On May 10, Jack Schaedel attended the California State Civic Learning Award Ceremony at San Marino High School. SMHS was honored for a series of curricular and extra-curricular programs involving students in civic participation. Jack’s contribution during the year was to serve as a judge in a mock trial of the Frankenstein monster for a senior English class taught by Jacqueline Schaedel.
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13
May
2013
Law, Lunch and Scholarship
Don Hernandez, Jack Schaedel, Kristin Petersen and Jamie Lopez attended the Pasadena Bar Association’s Law Day lunch on May 9. HS&A’s guests of honor, Irwin Evans and Nelson Atkins, were in attendance as well.
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10
May
2013
Update: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, 100 Years Later, and the TSCA: Responsibility as Opportunity
On May 3, 2013, we reported on the Bangladesh garment factory collapse at Rana Plaza and its connections to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911. Since then, the Rana Plaza tragedy has deepened as the death toll has soared to over 1,000, placing it among the worst workplace disasters in history
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03
May
2013
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, 100 Years Later, and the TSCA: Responsibility as Opportunity
On March 25, 1911, 148 garment workers, mostly poor, Jewish and Italian immigrant women, died in a catastrophic fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company’s factory in New York City. More than one hundred years later, in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh which killed at least 386 people, and a fire at the Tazreen Fashion factory in the capital city of Dhaka last year which killed 100 people, garment workers’ safety and working conditions clearly remain of serious concern.
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25
Apr
2013
Lawyers Giving Back
Don Hernandez and Jack Schaedel believe that helping others and giving back to the community are vitally important. Both tenants are among the core values and goals here at HS&A. The ABA Journal frequently features lawyers giving back to their communities and in the March issue, HS&A paralegal, Carrie Thompson is seen in action creating holiday cheer for the American Red Cross’ Holiday Mail for Heroes program. HS&A has participated in this annual campaign since 2011.
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17
Apr
2013
Let’s Hear it for the Team!
Jack Schaedel led team Lake Avenue Hooligans to a sweet victory at the recent PBA Wine & Trivia Night. The team included HS&A’s Agnes M. Sullivan , Jamie Lopez, Christina Paquette, and Martin Sullivan. For Schaedel, the event marked his second consecutive win as team captain.
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13
Mar
2013
HS&A in Los Angeles
Jack Schaedel, who is Legal Advisor to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, had lunch today with Eric Garcetti, who has reached the May 21, 2013 runoff in the race for Mayor of Los Angeles.
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15
Feb
2013
Employment Law Q & A
Jack Schaedel will present Employment Law Q & A for the Women Professional Business Group on Wednesday, February 27, 2013.
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08
Feb
2013
Schaedel to Moderate
Jack Schaedel will moderate the PBA Labor & Employment Section Meeting, the topic Sex in the Office.
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For employers, one of the most critical impacts of the Affordable Care Act is the requirement for applicable large employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees to provide affordable health insurance (“minimum essential coverage”) to their employees. Yet the law as passed in 2010 left open the question of whether the employer shared responsibility provisions under Section 4980H also require the employer to offer coverage to the employee’s family.
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