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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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Starting Nov. 1, employers in New York City will have to comply with a new pay transparency law requiring the disclosure of salary ranges in job advertisements.
Employers statewide may soon have to comply with pay transparency requirements as well. In June the state’s Legislature passed a bill (SB 9427) that would require employers with at least four workers to include minimum and maximum salary or hourly wage ranges in advertisements for jobs, promotions or transfers. If signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), the law would take effect 270 days later. California, Colorado, and Washington have passed similar laws. (SHRM, STATE NET)
Workers at an Amazon warehouse near Albany, New York, voted down a unionization effort by a wide margin (406 votes to 206 votes) last week. The result marks another setback for the Amazon Labor Union, which lost an election at a warehouse on Staten Island in May, after scoring an historic election win at another Amazon warehouse on Staten Island in April. (CNBC)
Voters in Tennessee will decide in November whether to enshrine the state’s existing “right-to-work” law into their state Constitution. Approval of the ballot measure wouldn’t change the way the law, which bars union contracts requiring workers to pay dues to the union that represents them, works. It would just make it harder to repeal in the future. Twenty-seven states currently have statutes like Tennessee’s, while nine have right-to-work provisions in their constitutions. (INSURANCE JOURNAL)
Illinois voters will decide next month whether to guarantee the right to bargain collectively in their state constitution. Approval of the ballot measure could give new life to the national labor movement, which has given up ground in recent years. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
-- Compiled by KOREY CLARK