--- title: "May 2021" description: "" url: "https://wimlaw.com/publications/newsletters/may-2021" date: "2026-06-10T14:03:08+00:00" language: "en-US" --- # May 2021 [ ![person signing document on a table indoors](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/4f/oxv3bzr7jxi-4f5f5123.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1124:reporting-deadline-for-eeo-1-coming-up-fast&catid=212)## [Reporting Deadline for EEO-1 Coming up Fast](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1124:reporting-deadline-for-eeo-1-coming-up-fast&catid=212) May 03, 2021 | [May 2021](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=212) After a brief hiatus due to the COVID-19 health emergency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is reminding covered businesses that they must report EEO-1 Component 1 data for both 2019 and 2020 by July 19, 2021. The portal for data collection and submission will open April 26, 2021. [Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1124:reporting-deadline-for-eeo-1-coming-up-fast&catid=212) [ ![biden on the front of the new york times rolled up paper with rubber band](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/24/an7ctlqars8-2492dce4.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1123:organized-labor-biden-infrastructure&catid=212)## [President Biden's Infrastructure Bill May Be Designed to Strengthen Organized Labor](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1123:organized-labor-biden-infrastructure&catid=212) May 03, 2021 | [May 2021](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=212) President Biden is in the process of proposing his second multi-trillion bill, on infrastructure, with a third multi-trillion bill to follow thereafter. Unlike President Obama's infrastructure bills, however the infrastructure bill produced in April, called the American Jobs Plan, would require employers benefitting from an infusion of infrastructure funds… [Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1123:organized-labor-biden-infrastructure&catid=212) [ ![ceo looking up at a building while outdoors](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/a8/ua-agenjmi4-a857eec7.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1122:politics-is-risky-business-for-ceos&catid=212)## [Politics Is Risky Business for CEOs](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1122:politics-is-risky-business-for-ceos&catid=212) May 03, 2021 | [May 2021](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=212) The above headline appeared in the Opinion section of the Wall Street Journal. The writer of the article, a former CEO of American Express, advises that executives should not take a company position on public-policy questions that do not directly affect their business. Among other things, the article points out that whatever political statements are made, i… [Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1122:politics-is-risky-business-for-ceos&catid=212) [ ![man is digging in the dirt outdoors](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/e7/8zvn4errwa0-e7f805eb.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1121:union-election-right-vote-suppression&catid=212)## [Pro Act Suppresses Employee Right to Vote in Union Elections](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1121:union-election-right-vote-suppression&catid=212) May 03, 2021 | [May 2021](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=212) This writer is from Georgia, where a recently passed state law has been accused by the media of discouraging voting by minorities. While this writer believes this claim is overstated at best, and false at worst, as evidenced by the fact that both Democrat activist Stacey Abrams and Republican former President Trump believe that recent elections in Georgia d… [Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1121:union-election-right-vote-suppression&catid=212) [ ![Amazon on a samsung phone](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/b5/rymh7ezpqrs-b5c05d81.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1120:amazon-workers-union-rejection&catid=212)## [Importance and Effect of Rejection of Union by Amazon Workers](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1120:amazon-workers-union-rejection&catid=212) May 03, 2021 | [May 2021](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=212) In the most closely watched union representation election in at least a decade, Amazon workers at its warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, defeated the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, with 1,798 no votes to only 738 yes votes, along with approximately 500 challenged ballots that will not be counted because it would not affect the results. 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