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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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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced plans last week to require on-site workers at all private businesses in the city to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in an effort to stem the spread of the new Omicron variant this winter. The sweeping mandate, likely to face legal challenges, would apply to about 184,000 businesses and go into effect on Dec. 27, days before the mayor leaves office (NEW YORK TIMES)
A global advocacy group called Fight for $15 and a Union released a report this month documenting more than 77,000 alleged violent or threatening incidents at fast-food restaurants in nine major California cities that prompted 911 calls between 2017 and 2020. The report was intended to draw support for a bill pending carryover in the California Legislature (AB 257) that would make the state the first to create a council to set pay and workplace standards for the fast-food industry. (SACRAMENTO BEE, FIGHT FOR $15 AND A UNION, STATE NET)
-- Compiled by KOREY CLARK