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January 05, 2022

Lawmakers asked to extend law allowing traveling health care workers to fill Vermont’s critical need - vtdigger.org

Health care workers tend to Covid-19 patients in the emergency department at the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington on Monday, Dec. 13. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger With rising concerns about health care staff shortages and the unprecedented spread of Covid-19, Vermont lawmakers may extend a policy that allows retired and out-of-state health care personnel to practice in Ver...
January 05, 2022

The Top 16 Workplace Law Stories from December 2021 | Fisher Phillips - JDSupra - JD Supra

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month was no exception. In fact, there were so many significant developments taking place during the past month that we were once again forced to expand our monthly summary we...
January 05, 2022

Fraternal Order of Police VP pleads for 'demonization' of law enforcement to stop - Fox News

FOP VP pleads for 'demonization' of law enforcement to stop 00:00 00:0000:51GO LIVE Facebook Twitter Email Embed SpeedNormal Autoplay Fraternal Order of Police Vice President Joe Gamaldi blasted the "demonization" of law enforcement on "The Faulkner Focus" Wednesday after attacks against officers skyrocketed in 2021. "There are a lot of politicians out there and people in the media and cit...
January 05, 2022

Can county supervisors hold other government jobs? Here's what California law says - Stockton Record

Supervisor Robert Rickman works full time as a California Highway Patrol sergeant, in addition to representing District 5 on the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors. Both roles are government positions, and both earn him a full-time salary. But the situation does not present a conflict of interest, Rickman said. "(The roles) don't have oversight over each other, so there's not a conflic...
January 05, 2022

OPM To Publish Rule Implementing Law Protecting Feds from Discrimination, Whistleblower Retaliation - GovExec.com

The rule implements a law named for the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. Alex Wong/Getty Images file photo The Office of Personnel Management is set to publish regulations implementing a 2021 law aimed at improving agency accountability for acts of discrimination and whistleblower retaliation against federal workers. The Elijah E. Cummings Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act, named for...
January 05, 2022

Tennessee law leaves few options for schools to respond to omicron surge - WCYB

(WCYB Photo)<br> JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — The omicron variant is driving a surge in COVID-19 cases in our region just as schools return from the winter break, but a new Tennessee law ties the hands of school leaders by banning mask mandates and contact tracing. Johnson City schools successfully turned around the delta wave among their students. They say it was with a combination of mask ma...
January 05, 2022

U.K. expands 'Turing's Law' to pardon past same-sex convictions - NBC News

In a long-awaited triumph for the U.K.’s LGBTQ community, the government on Tuesday announced that anyone convicted of consensual same-sex activity under now-defunct laws will soon be eligible to be pardoned and have their records wiped clean. This week’s announcement follows a less-expansive2017measure that was limited to nine former offenses that targeted gay and bisexual men. The new amend...
January 05, 2022

Law Enforcement Staffing Shortages to be Discussed Friday, Jan. 7 - Door County Pulse

The Sturgeon Bay Police Department is one of 19 law-enforcement agencies in northeast Wisconsin, including the Door County Sheriff’s Office, that is helping to raise awareness in April – Sexual Assault Awareness Month – about the effects of sexual assault on communities. The ribbons will be displayed throughout April. Submitted. Rep. Joel Kitchens (R-Sturgeon Bay) will hold a press conference...
January 05, 2022

Kansas City man pleads guilty to forcibly resisting federal law enforcement - KSHB

Photo by: Joe Raedle/Getty Images (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City, Missouri, man pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of forcibly resisting federal law enforcement officers related to an incident which injured two United States deputy marshals. On Dec. 30, 2020, law enforcement officers located 46-year-old Ray E. Clevenger for a state felony arrest warran...
January 05, 2022

Debtor’s Law Firm Fees Lien Takes Priority Over Charging Order In Rice - Forbes

Liens can be consensual in the form of a UCC lien, or nonconsensual in the form of a charging order ... [+] A charging order is a post-judgment enforcement tool that places a lien on a debtor/member's right to distributions from an LLC or partnership, or what is referred to (not quite accurately) as the debtor/member's "membership interest" or "partnership interest". The best way to think of ...