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25 Feb 2016, 6:08 am
Following on the tails of recent updates in New York and California’s equal pay laws, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California all have bills pending in their state legislatures that would seek to eliminate pay differentials on the basis of sex and other protected categories. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 6:04 am
Leland Yee Sentenced to Prison” by Howard Mintz for San Jose Mercury News Missouri: “Some Question the Limits to Legislating the Missouri Legislature” by Jason Rosenbaum for St. [read post]
24 Feb 2016, 12:50 pm
—The Legislature finds it 788 necessary to regulate persons that hold themselves out to the 789 public as qualified to provide services as property insurance 790 appraisal umpires in order to protect the public safety and 791 welfare and to avoid economic injury to the residents of this 792 state. [read post]
24 Feb 2016, 9:24 am
We recently posted here about a bill in the Utah State legislature, HB 251, which would have essentially prohibited non-competition agreements in Utah. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 3:15 pm
" This is not the way you talk if you don't recognize the authority of the legislature to impose the restraint on you that it has, and it's not the way you talk if you mean to defy that legislature in the coming weeks or months either. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 9:29 am
The Senate approved the extension on February 9 by a vote of 316 for and 28 against. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 9:08 am
Under the terms of Senate Bill 1532, an employer’s location will affect the wages it must pay employees. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 6:07 am
The bill, SB 1532, cleared the state senate as amended on February 11 by a 16-12 vote. [read post]
22 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm
The pace of new state Religious Freedom Restoration Acts was slowed last year when Indiana experienced harsh pushback from major corporations unwilling to do business in a state that permits discrimination against LGBTQ customers. [read post]
22 Feb 2016, 6:59 pm
The Virginia legislature is about to make the NAMES and training records of police officers a secret. [read post]
22 Feb 2016, 1:17 pm
Senator Christopher Murphy (D-CT) and Senator Al Franken (D-MN) introduced the bill to prohibit any covenant-not-to-compete agreement for workers paid less than a “livable hourly rate. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 11:19 am
The bill, which passed the Vermont Senate on February 10 and the House on February 17, is expected to gain Governor Peter Shumlin’s signature. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 6:43 am
Massachusetts – FBI, IRS Raid Canton Law Office of State Senator Brian JoyceBoston Globe – Milton Valencia, Astead Herndon, and Andrea Estes | Published: 2/17/2016 The FBI and IRS raided the law office of Massachusetts Sen. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 5:01 am
As the president of the Louisiana Senate put it, “The sales tax seems to be the one causing the most grief. [read post]
18 Feb 2016, 10:30 pm
A recently published National Conference of State Legislatures study found that in 2015 immigration legislation increased 26% from the previous year. [read post]
18 Feb 2016, 6:00 pm
Other states (Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York) and even the EEOC have since pursued similar action, through various means. [read post]
18 Feb 2016, 11:35 am
” That bill died in the state Senate, however, and was returned to the Assembly on January 6, 2016. [read post]
17 Feb 2016, 3:02 am
This law was the result of lobbying by big businesses and insurance companies, who have influence over the State Legislature and the Governor of California. [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 9:00 pm
While Massachusetts is certainly not the only state where non-competes are enforceable, it’s status as a technology hub draws a sharp contrast to its leading rival: California. [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 1:05 pm
Massachusetts is one step closer to a strengthened equal pay law after the State Senate passed equal pay legislation in late January. [read post]
