PASADENA POLICE - COMMUNITY BRIEF March 2021

Connection Breakfast Thursday, April 8th at 8am. (Sorry, because of the calendar, the lunch and breakfast are on back-to-back days. Hope to see you at both.)

John Burt of Intelligent Leadership Executive Coaching sponsors April's breakfast.

Network, promote your business, meet new people, make new connections, build our contact list-all from the safety of your own home or office (or wherever you may be) via ZOOM. 

Pasadena has qualified to advance to the less-restrictive orange tier of the state’s COVID-19 business-reopening blueprint, but will not ease restrictions until Monday. Qualifying for the orange tier requires L.A. County, where Pasadena is located, to have an average daily rate of new COVID infections of 3.9 per 100,000 residents, along with a testing-positivity rate of 4.9% or less, and maintain those levels for two consecutive weeks.

What COVID-19 safety measures do employers need to have in place before bringing employees back to the worksite from remote work?

Employers who are bringing their employees back to the workplace have several steps and considerations to make.

Written Prevention Program

More Retirements Bode Ill for Growth By Amara Omeokwe

The proportion of older workers participating in the labor force is hovering at its worst level since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, raising the prospect that many of these Americans may have permanently left the workforce, potentially impairing future economic growth.

New Grants: Now in its fourth round, KKR Small Business Builders is here to support entrepreneurs and their small businesses around the world. 

From Joanna Stern and the Wall Street Journal:

Once upon a time, there was a tech columnist who bought a $150 printer with a model number so long it’s now her bank password.

The two lived as happily as a printer and a human could. She pulled jammed paper from its rollers, came to understand its sporadic grunts and fed it $40 color cartridges—even though she only printed black-and-white labels.

From the Wall Street Journal: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated Monday that the U.S. economy’s recovery remains far from complete despite recent improvement and that the central bank plans to continue providing support.

PPP Loans: The House passed a bill extending the deadline for applying for a Paycheck Protection Program loan to May 31, sending the legislation to the Senate as the current March 31 deadline looms. Under the bill, which passed by a vote of 415-3, firms have until May 31 to apply for a loan and the SBA faces a June 30 deadline to process them.