The Arefin Law Office is very proud to present this diverse, esteemed panel on Raising Race-Conscious Children in Today’s America. Please register for this free Zoom discussion scheduled for June 15th from 6:00-7:00PM. If you have children or know children ages 8-17 who have race-related questions, please submit them to Sharmin Arefin at sarefin@arefinlaw.com for…
On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued its long-awaited replacement of the Obama administration’s controversial overtime rule, raising the minimum salary threshold required for workers to qualify for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (“FLSA”) “white collar” exemptions to $35,308 per year, allowing more than a million more American workers eligible for…
Is this a new form of race discrimination? Sadly, it’s not new, and it’s not novel. Minorities have been discriminated against based on hair for years. In 2017, Mya and Deana Cook, twin sisters in Massachusetts, had to serve detention after school officials determined that their braids violated school policy. In August 2018, Clinton Stanley…
