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On Thursday, December 23, 2021, the President signed into law: H.R. 6256, which bans imports from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) of the People’s Republic of China and imposes sanctions on foreign individuals responsible for forced labor in the region, Thank you to Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, Representatives McGovern and Chris Smith, and Senators Merkley and Rubio for the...

Fred's Law to keep families together | Queenswide | qchron.com  Queens Chronicle

On December 17, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) held that a termination of employment based only upon an employee’s rebuttal to a negative performance review in the employee’s personnel file violates the public policy exception to at-will employment. In so holding, the SJC reversed confusing lower court decisions and added teeth to the notoriously strict Massachusetts Per...

Hochul signs law giving pension to Buffalo police officer fired amid controversy in 2008  Buffalo News

What Ancient Laws Can Teach Us About Holding Autocrats to Account Today  TIME

Washington (CNN)Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine on Wednesday signed a bill into law requiring doctors to try to preserve life in the rare case that a baby is born alive following an attempted abortion -- or face criminal penalties. Senate Bill 157 also requires doctors to report cases of babies born alive following an abortion procedure and bans clinics that provide abortions from working wi...

On Wednesday, two days after state legislators rewrote a voter-approved animal welfare law, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed the bill into law, averting a possible shortage of eggs and pork. The new law revamps housing standards for egg-laying hens and delays until August 15 a prohibition on the sale of pork products from farms that do not give pigs enough room to lie down, stand up, f...

Malta Whistleblower Another European nation’s new whistleblower law is drawing heavy criticism for not adequately protecting whistleblowers. Pieter Omtzigt, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s General Rapporteur on the protection of whistleblowers, stated that Malta’s whistleblower reform law is “not fit for purpose,” according to MaltaToday. December 17, 2021 was the deadli...

An example of an Alabama pistol permit. A pre-filed bill for the 2022 legislative session could make Alabama the 22nd state in the nation to adopt permitless carry, coined “constitutional carry” by its proponents. Currently, the state requires a pistol permit for citizens to carry a pistol on their person or in their vehicle. Proponents of permitless carry say the permit requirement infringes...

Sarah Lageson Ideas 12.23.2021 09:00 AM Transparency Laws Let Criminal Records Become Commodities For millions of people, details from an arrest—even a mistaken one—live on after being sold to data brokers. And the state profits. Save this story for later. Illustration: WIRED; Getty Images In April 2018, Adnan (a pseudonym) was wrongfully arrested in Newark, New Jersey, on the basis of an inc...