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CA to Cap Health Care Providers’ Annual Price Increases at 3% California’s Health Care Affordability Board voted to limit annual price increases from doctors, hospitals and health insurers...
VT Retailers Fight Data Privacy Bill Orvis and other online retailers based in Vermont are mounting an effort to scale back comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation ( HB 121 ) that has been passed...
Even as states are falling behind on their greenhouse gas emissions goals , that topic remains a top priority in legislatures across the country. Numerous bills have been introduced this year that would...
States Loosening Occupational Licensing Laws In an effort to boost their workforces, states are advancing legislation to loosen their occupational licensing laws. For example, the Louisiana House passed...
ME House Passes Restrictive Data Privacy Bill Maine’s House narrowly approved a bill ( LD 1977 ) that would impose restrictions on the digital information that companies can collect. Businesses...
With virtually every sector of the U.S. economy suffering a major worker shortage, state lawmakers are taking steps to boost their workforces in the near- and long-term. To try to attract workers now Vermont and West Virginia have launched programs offering incentives to workers in other states, while South Dakota has initiated a program that connects those looking for jobs with employers looking for workers.
Seeking to build a pipeline of qualified future workers, Tennessee lawmakers created the College of Applied Technology, with a campus near the site of a planned Ford factory that will make electric vehicles and batteries. And New Jersey created an apprenticeship program to prepare workers for employment in the state’s water companies. (PLURIBUS NEWS)
California’s minimum wage will increase from $15.50 per hour to $16.00 per hour on Jan. 1, 2024. The director of the state’s Department of Finance said in a letter published on July 31 that the increase was necessary to account for inflation. (SHRM)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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