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Harvey Weinstein. Photo: John Phillips/Getty Images Disgraced studio head Harvey Weinstein has already been the subject of multiple criminal investigations stemming from his alleged pattern of sexual abuse and assault of women before and after founding the Weinstein Company. Now, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office has filed a lawsuit against TWC itself following a four-month investigation, claiming the company failed to protect employees from Harvey Weinstein’s “unrelenting sexual harassment, intimidation, and discrimination.” Harvey and Bob Weinstein were also personally named in the suit. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the suit claims that, by knowing about his misconduct and refusing to act, the Weinstein Company violated “numerous New York civil rights, human rights, and business laws.” The details of the suit assert that Weinstein created a “a years-long gender-based hostile work environment, a pattern of quid … [Read more...] about New York Attorney General Files Civil-Rights Suit Against the Weinstein Company

By presidential campaign standards, Pete Buttigieg has been pretty much an open book — but with one chapter missing.The Democratic South Bend, Ind., mayor has let reporters sit on his campaign bus and pelt him with questions until they get tired; he’s spoken at length about his personal experience coming out as a gay man; he’s shown a willingness to face some of his most withering critics.But Buttigieg won’t talk about his three years of work for McKinsey & Co., the famous, secretive — and lately, notorious — management consulting firm.Almost a decade after leaving McKinsey in 2010, Buttigieg is still bound by a nondisclosure agreement that his campaign says McKinsey is refusing to lift, leaving a large hole in the 37-year-old’s otherwise closely examined life story. Advertisement “We have asked McKinsey to be released from the NDA in full, and we have asked McKinsey if we can release a list of clients,” campaign spokesman Sean … [Read more...] about A secretive corporation won’t let Pete Buttigieg talk about three years of his life

Amazon, Google and Facebook could be made to pay a “fair” share of tax under new European Union proposals on digital companies that could heighten transatlantic tensions. The European commission called for large technology companies to pay a 3% tax if they make money from user data or digital advertising in a country, regardless of their bricks-and-mortar presence. As well as social media companies making money through user data, the move would also catch online market places, such as Airbnb and Uber. Tech giants have been rattled by the proposals, which are a departure from the current system under which companies are taxed on profits where they are headquartered, often in countries offering lower tax rates. European leaders will discuss the plans at an EU summit on Thursday, opening a fractious debate about how to capture revenue from digital firms. France has led the charge for a digital tax, sometimes nicknamed the Gafa tax, after Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. … [Read more...] about Facebook, Google and Amazon could pay ‘fair’ tax under EU plans

Fast Company is looking for a staff writer to work on its Impact section, covering the intersection of business and social good, focusing on social entrepreneurship, climate solutions, alternative economic models, corporate social responsibility, and the future of food, transportation, and more. advertisement We’re looking for someone with interest and ideas about the intersection of business and change-making—how the business world can (and can’t) influence the path of progress. Your job will be to help tell the stories of people working on cutting-edge solutions and investigate and expose when those solutions aren’t what they promised. You’ll be reporting and writing stories daily, helping with some editing and display copy writing, and working with us on managing our annual World Changing Ideas Awards program. You should have several years of reporting experience at a newspaper or an online publication, preferably covering some area of technology … [Read more...] about Fast Company’s Impact section is looking for a staff writer

This article first appeared on the Hoover Institution site. The Trump administration is currently facing a major decision—whether to withdraw the United States from the Paris Accords on climate change. The huge multi-national agreement was finalized in the closing weeks of the Obama administration, just days before Trump's surprise victory in the presidential election. The key commitment made by the United States under the accords is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the next decade by about a quarter of their 2005 rate, with further reductions to come thereafter. But during his campaign, Donald Trump promised to pull out of the accords, and, at the recent meeting of the G-7, was the lone holdout against a ringing endorsement of the agreement. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been insisting that the United States stay the course, but it appears as if Trump is inclined to honor his campaign promise to pull out of the accords, a position in line with that of Scott Pruitt, … [Read more...] about Richard Epstein: Trump Is Right to Abandon the Paris Accord