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IL House Passes ‘Junk Fee’ Bill The Illinois House passed a bill ( HB 228 ) that would amend the state’s Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act to prohibit businesses from...
Anthropic Not Releasing New AI Model to Public The artificial intelligence company Anthropic—recently in the headlines for demanding that the Pentagon agree to certain limitations on the use of...
CT Lawmakers Target AI in Employment A bill (SB 435) before Connecticut’s legislature would require employers to disclose to job applicants when they are communicating with artificial intelligence...
On March 11, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed HB 2303 . The law, which takes effect June 11, bars employers from requesting, requiring or coercing workers or job applicants to accept a subcutaneous...
ND Regulators Approve Bank-to-Bank Stablecoin Use North Dakota’s Industrial Commission approved the use of the state bank’s planned stablecoin, the Roughrider Coin, for bank-to-bank transactions...
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The Federal Trade Commission approved a policy statement that announced its intention to protect gig workers from unfair, deceptive or anticompetitive practices.
The FTC listed three primary areas of enforcement: holding companies accountable for claims to workers about potential earnings and costs borne by workers; ensuring that restrictive contract terms, including those limiting workers from seeking other jobs, do not violate the FTC Act or other laws; and investigating the illegal fixing of wages, benefits, or fees for gig workers that should be open to competition, as well as exclusionary or predatory conduct that could cause harm to customers or reduced compensation or poorer working conditions for gig workers. (FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION)
The Oregon Employment Department said the state has recovered all of the jobs lost during the first two-plus years of the COVID pandemic.
“With the rapid gains in total nonfarm payroll jobs in July and August, Oregon reached a record employment total of 1,974,700 jobs in August, which was 2,500 jobs above the pre-pandemic peak reached in February 2020,” the Employment Department said in a statement. (OREGON EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT, OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING)
--Compiled by RICH EHISEN