our eeo data. cases are down. and i think a lot of that is due to the way we have a new eeo manager and she is very good. and what i think she does -- first of all, we had to increase the number of staff we had. we had three people taking in all of these eeo complaints and the ada complaments -- complaints. so we had a lot not being responded to. but we added halle and is working well. we don't see the carryover we did in the past. ada requests, again, there was a spike, then it has gone down quite a bit. a large number in 15-16 was before hali's arrival. and the large backlog. this one, this is labor relations. this was -- so ronda simmons, she's our new labor relations director. has been there just about a year. she had the staff pull together all the case information they could find. that is a very large number, but i notice that in there, there are things that are not disciplinary, for example, arbitration is the outcome of a discipline or grievance. a meet and confer is us greenhouse gagreeing to sit down wit

it's quite normal in other countries that you do have the separation of eeo and shower, but it seemsceo stop weighs it important that this happens? you should have an independent chair who is there to look after the shareholders. so when you have this dual class share situation, mark zuckerberg has 48% of the voting power, but he only owns 13% of the stock. so the rest of the investors aren't really getting the same voting rights and thatis getting the same voting rights and that is a problem. so, at this particular meeting, the shareholders put together a shareholder resolution. so as well as introducing an independent chair, they want facebook to sell off some of it subsidiaries, they also wanted to return to its — move away from the dual class share structure. when you have a concentration of power in one person in any company, it doesn't matter what company it is, it doesn't matter how good the person is. it's never a good thing. well, they didn't get their way, did they? so let's see how this plays out. and that at the independent. the spread of global extremism, they are saying

this eeo followed his cfo out of the companies. he cited personal reasons for leaving. replacement. the resignations come after lenders received only one conditional bid from a short list of potential investors. bass has closed his near for your wager against the offshore yuan just as the trade war heats up. they entered a short bid on the currency in july 2015 and held the position as recently as march when he argued that china would eventually deplete its foreign exchange reserves trying to support the yuan as tension with the u.s. escalates. >> i don't have a vested interest in simply china's currency anymore. this is such an important moment in time that all of the work i've done over the past seven years is going to be moving more towards the political sphere than the financials fair. shery: we will discuss all that ahead in the next hour. david wu of bank of america merrill lynch will join us to discuss the big stories of the day. that's all it for daybreak australia this morning. we do have trading underway in new zealand. we are an hour away from the open here i

politicians, the center is still solid, but what you have now is essentially more disrupters like mat eeo temporary time, the uk brexit party under nigel farage will feel they have a mandate. but will it change anything in a big way? yes and no. is this a course correction that we are moving away, we are polarizing politics in europe? you have to say you can't test that theory until you get to the next election in five years. >> absolutely. okay, nic robertson reporting for us live from london those election over the weekend, we appreciate you being here. >>> thanks for joining me. i'll see you back with jim tomorrow morning. "at this hour" starts now. >>> and hello from washington, d.c., i'm ryan nobles in today for kate bolduan. welcome to a special holiday edition of "at this hour." at any moment vice president mike pence will honor the nation's fallen service members and their families by laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. president trump of course not in attendance this year because he is in japan for a state visit. we'll have much more on that in just a moment. let'

the confirmation of a well-respected commissioner to another term on the eeoc even if that meant the eeo c would no -- eeoc would no longer have a quorum. i urged my colleagues to pass a slate of nominees to the eeoc, but republican leaders allowed one republican member's opposition to a noncontroversial nominee to hold more weight than the entire senate minority. now, here we are today and republicans want to jam through another nominee without their democratic pair, and by doing this, my colleagues across the aisle have now aband -- abandoned long-standing norms and -- more of a say. is this unacceptable and it goes against the core of the e rch oc. it is illegal to discriminate against someone in the workplace because of race, religion, sex or disability or lgbtq. it is the eeoc's responsibility to enforce those laws and give every person the opportunity to earn a living without fear of discrimination or harassment. the eeoc protects lgbtq rights in the workplace and it addresses the gender pay gap. the eeoc is responsible for addressing harassment in the workplace, an issue our count

anywhere else, so the deadline was on the 7th of may and according to the electorate commission and the eeosion not many people knew what was happening, and voters claim basically they did not have enough time to get everything sorted out about they claim. even the electorate commission has agreed with them in a way, i have a statement here, they say they understand their frustration. also, the very short notice from the uk government participation in the election has had an impact on the time available for people to become aware and complete the process and we have had so many people get in touch with us and basically say they are touch with us and basically say they a re really touch with us and basically say they are really upset and had not had their say and denied a vote so people need to fill in a farm and they were very confused and perhaps did not get it in time and maybe forgot to submit it, however we don't know this, local councils could have had administrative error, ora could have had administrative error, or a lack of correct forms being sent out we simply don't know. the head