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LANSING, Mich. - Michigan public schools can use non-teaching staff as substitute teachers the rest of the academic year under a law designed to address a shortage during the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Monday that she signed the bill last week, calling it a "temporary stopgap" in a letter to lawmakers. It lets secretaries, paraprofessionals and other school employee...

The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. We welcome feedback, which you can provide using the feedback tab on the right of the page. (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court in the coming months will wade into a series of issues with major implications for employ...

Business Employers are balancing vaccine requirements with labor shortages and trying to keep up with changes to national, state and local labor laws Traveling health care workers gave COVID-19 vaccines outside Walmart in Craig on July 27, 2021. People who got a vaccine also received a $100 Walmart gift card as part of a state incentive program. (Jennifer Brown, The Colorado Sun) As another C...

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Tarzhanova/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Jenée Desmond-Harris is online weekly to chat live with readers. Here’s an edited transcript of this week’s chat. Q. The elephant in the family: I recently got married, and just spent my first Christmas with my partner’s family. One of my mother-in-law’s traditions is buying everyone in the family the same gift from th...

After the 2020 legislative session was truncated by the coronavirus pandemic, this year turned into a busy one for Illinois lawmakers and Gov. J.B. Pritzker. From efforts to address the state’s pervasive political corruption to declaring an official state microbe, legislators tackled issues large and small as they passed more than 280 measures that were signed into laws taking effect with the...

China has passed its first wetlands protection law over a decade after the legislation was proposed, marking a major step in saving the country’s impaired ecosystem, sometimes referred to as “the Earth’s kidneys.” Chinese lawmakers on Friday approved the Wetland Protection Law, spelling out provisions on protecting, utilizing, and restoring wetlands, as well as specifying accountability of go...

amson Winsor moved across the country from Utah to Austin in 2019, hoping he would feel less out of place. The Texas capital city had creative opportunities and cheaper living costs than places like Los Angeles and New York City while still having a substantial population of transgender people to support his identity as a transgender man. But Winsor said he’s still afraid. Weeks after having ...

Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey surround an apartment complex on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Houston. ( Brett Coomer / Houston Chronicle ) After Hurricane Harvey slammed Harris County in August 2017, state Rep. Armando Walle waited for the floodwaters to recede, then hopped in his pickup truck and began surveying the damage near his northeast Houston home. As he drove through Aldine, Gr...

For half a century, American women have had the right to choose to end a pregnancy at any point before a fetus is viable outside the womb. If 2021 saw that freedom start to crumble, 2022 could see it more widely wiped away. "I think this is the time," said an anti-abortion rights activist from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, who declined to share her name this fall while outside the state’s only re...

Benjamin Fagbote is accustomed to staying home and watching football on New Year’s Day. Until this year, it was against the law for him to sell beer, wine or liquor on the holiday. Fagbote always took a day off from Uncle Ben’s Liquors, which is among the city’s smallest liquor stores. The 67-year-old, who bought the business 17 years ago, says he will definitely work on the first day of 202...