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FTC, 17 States File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon The long-expected antitrust action against Amazon finally came last week with the filing of a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western...
NC Budget Would Preempt Local Government Minimum Wage Rates The state budget ( HB 259 ) approved largely along party lines this month in North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature includes...
Medicaid Expansion Coming to NC in December North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) announced last week that the state will launch Medicaid expansion on Dec. 1, which will leave just 10 states that haven’t...
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress enacted the Families First Coronavirus Response Act , which among other things required state Medicaid programs to keep people continuously enrolled...
Biden Administration Seeks to Exclude Medical Debt from Credit Scores The Biden administration announced plans to develop new rules that would prevent unpaid medical bills from counting towards consumers’...
Thanks to pay transparency laws enacted in states like California, Colorado, Illinois and Washington, as well as in a handful of cities like New York, many job advertisements now include a pay range. But some employers have skirted such requirements by disclosing salary ranges that aren’t specific to the position being offered. Current job listings from Netflix, for example, indicate a salary range of $60,000 to $290,000 for a consumer products role. The practice of disclosing broad salary bands may be growing in high-paying fields like medical information and scientific research and development, according to research by economists at the Indeed Hiring Lab. (NEW YORK TIMES)
The Maine Senate passed a bill (SB 800 a) that would establish a statewide paid family and medical leave program. Although the measure includes proposals from Gov. Janet Mills (D) making it more friendly to businesses, she has not indicated whether she will sign it if it reaches her desk. (PLURIBUS NEWS, PORTLAND PRESS HERALD, STATE NET)
Democrats who control Michigan’s Legislature are seeking to repeal two laws signed years ago by Gov. Rick Snyder (R) that took away certain labor powers from local governments. HB 4231 would repeal a 2011 law barring municipalities from entering into labor agreements on publicly funded construction projects. HB 4237 would repeal a 2015 law blocking municipalities from imposing wage and benefit requirements on local businesses. (MLIVE, STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK