State agency tasked with fighting wage theft rarely sides with workers Wage theft is when an employer fails to pay workers overtime, withholds their tips, or even entire paychecks. Advocacy groups claim it costs employees billions ... 04/24/2024 - 9:00 am | View Link
Federal Trade Commission Approves Ban Of Noncompete Agreements Commissioners approved the historic regulation on the grounds that noncompetes stifle competition for workers. A legal challenge is all but certain. 04/23/2024 - 11:56 am | View Link
Millions more salaried workers will be eligible for overtime pay under final Biden administration rule Millions of salaried workers will soon qualify for overtime pay under a final rule released by the US Department of Labor on Tuesday. 04/23/2024 - 6:15 am | View Link
Fair Wage Coalition pushes for increase tip worker pay, citing increase risk for workers of sexual harrasement MARYLAND- April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month and one group is highlighting how tipped workers are more vulnerable to poor workplace conditions. One Fair Wage Maryland says, tipped ... 04/22/2024 - 3:48 pm | View Link
UT, pay your workers a livable wage The current minimum wage for UT full-time employees is $15 an hour, while Austin’s livable wage is $20.80 an hour. 04/22/2024 - 2:29 pm | View Link
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“A Secret Service agent tasked with protecting Vice President Kamala Harris brawled with several other agents on Monday morning,” the New York Post reports.
“The agent in question, whose identity has not been revealed, was immediately ‘removed from their assignment,’”
Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist Jim Hoft posted a message to his readers saying they are filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection claiming it is as a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet.
Hoft didn't say exactly who, what, or why this is happening now, but Will Sommer from the Washington Post has some information.
While he didn’t name which lawsuits he was referencing, the site is being sued for claims of defamation and infliction of emotional distress by Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss, two Georgia election workers who say they faced threats after the site leveled baseless accusations of ballot fraud against them.
That sounds about right.
When House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) emerged onto the steps of Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library on Wednesday afternoon, he was greeted with a deafening sound: hundreds of booing students.
Johnson had just emerged from meetings with Jewish students at the university to discuss what he, other Republicans, and some Democrats allege is rising antisemitism on campuses nationwide.