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‘Unauthorized Alien’ Limits Among Trio of Auto Insurance Proposals Under Consideration in LA House Three auto insurance bills cleared the Louisiana House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure...
Social Media Bill Dodges Veto Override in CO Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ (D) veto of a social media bill ( SB 86 ) survived an override attempt. The state’s Democrat-controlled Senate voted...
WA Enacts Law Keeping Medical Debt Off Credit Reports Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed a bill ( SB 5480 ) prohibiting collection agencies from reporting unpaid medical debt to credit agencies...
In 2022, there were about 22 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in the United States. That’s the highest rate of maternal deaths among high-income nations worldwide. That sobering statistic...
DOGE-Like Effort in FL Could Impact Insurance Industry The wave of housecleaning that’s swept through the federal government courtesy of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency appears...
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