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States Passing Laws to Aid Small Pharmacies States including Colorado ( HB 1094 ), Georgia ( HB 196 ), Indiana ( SB 140 ), Iowa ( SB 383 ) and Montana (HB 740) have passed laws this year setting minimum...
Child labor may evoke Dickensian images of young children in dirty, oversized clothes laboring in dusty, dangerous workshops. But this year legislators in Florida considered a bill ( SB 918 ) that would...
MN Enacts Nation’s First Social Media Warning Label Requirement Minnesota enacted a first-in-the-nation provision ( HB 2 a / SB 6 a ) requiring social media platforms to display mental health warning...
CA to Investigate State Farm over LA Wildfire Claims California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara (D) announced a “market conduct examination” of State Farm over consumer complaints about...
OR Enacts Nation’s Strongest Corporate Health Care Law Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) signed a bill ( SB 951 ) imposing the toughest regulations on private and corporate control of medical practices...
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A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board rejected Amazon’s effort to overturn a union victory at the company’s JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, which has impeded contract negotiations between the company and the union. The NLRB official decided there was insufficient evidence supporting the company’s claim of improprieties on the part of the union and the labor board. The company said it would appeal the regional director’s decision to the labor board in Washington, D.C. (NEW YORK TIMES)
On the first day of Michigan’s legislative session last week (Jan. 11), Democrats who control both the House and Senate for the first time in 40 years announced a bevy of bills that would significantly shift state policies. They include proposals that would reinstate the prevailing wage law repealed in 2018 and repeal the right-to-work law enacted in 2012. The bills were expected to be formally introduced on Jan. 12. (MICHIGAN ADVANCE, DETROIT NEWS)
As Missouri lawmakers returned to the Capitol last week, legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle expressed support for efforts to boost the state’s childcare workforce, including increasing childcare worker pay and possibly granting childcare facilities property tax breaks.
“We know we have a workforce problem,” said Senate President Caleb Rowden (R). “This isn’t a new problem.” (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH)
— Compiled KOREY CLARK