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CT Senate Passes Sweeping Consumer Protection Bill The Connecticut Senate passed an expansive consumer protection bill ( SB 5 ). Among other things, the measure would require service providers such as...
Social Media Warning Label Legislation Catching on in States Although Congress hasn’t responded to former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s call last June to take up legislation requiring...
OR Lawmakers Pass Age Discrimination Bill Oregon’s legislature passed a bill ( HB 3187 ) that would prohibit an employer from requesting an applicant’s age, date of birth or date of graduation...
WI Assembly Passes Multiple Healthcare Bills Wisconsin’s Assembly passed multiple healthcare-related bills with broad bipartisan support. One ( AB 43 ) would allow pharmacists to prescribe birth...
A nightmare may be coming to life for social media companies in Minnesota. There, Democrats in the state Legislature have embraced a pioneering bill, SB 3197 , which seeks to levy the nation’s...
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The actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA, reached a tentative contract agreement with Hollywood studios last week. In July, actors joined the strike initiated by screenwriters in May over streaming-service pay and concerns about rapidly developing artificial intelligence technology. The Writers Guild of America reached an agreement with studios and ended its strike in late September. SAG-AFTRA members will begin voting this week on whether to accept their new contract, which among other things would give them more compensation for streaming movies and shows, and guarantee that AI-generated replicas of their likenesses wouldn’t be used without their approval or pay. (NEW YORK TIMES)
Las Vegas hotel workers reached new contract agreements with Caesars, MGM Resorts and Wynn Resorts last week, narrowly avoiding a strike at 18 hotel-casinos located on the Strip. Among other things, the proposed contracts would guarantee the workers significantly higher wages and daily room cleanings, which hotels discontinued during the pandemic, placing the workers in jeopardy of cutbacks. Rank and file members of the Culinary Workers Union will vote on whether to approve the proposed five-year contracts within the next couple of weeks. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
California employers will have until July 1 of next year to create workplace violence prevention plans and train workers how to follow them. Robert Rodriguez, an attorney with Ogletree Deakins in Sacramento, said meeting that deadline “is not going to be an easy undertaking for employers” and “will likely require the involvement of many internal stakeholders.” (SHRM)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK