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alert RTD Metro Business law columnist, Karen Michael. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently updated its coronavirus technical assistance guidance, providing advice on how to respond to religious objections to employer vaccine mandates. The guidance provides some additional clarity that employers and employees may find helpful in evaluating the accommodation requests. Applicant...

Colorado lawmakers passed a bill this year that sought to end the exploitation of farmworkers in the state. Senate Bill 87, which Gov. Jared Polis signed into law in June, ensures that the 40,000 farmworkers across Colorado are entitled to things like water, shade, breaks, minimum wage and overtime pay. The bill also banned use of the short-handled hoe, which has been blamed for long-term chr...

Photo courtesy of the Utah DWR DWR News Release The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources law enforcement section has seen various changes during its 125-year history, but conserving Utah’s fish and wildlife species — and enforcing the laws that protect them — has continued to be the top priority since the first game warden took office in Utah in 1896. While pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valle...

Texas Tribune At her sonogram appointment in late September, Kendra Joseph received ominous news. Signs pointed to an impending miscarriage, but she wasn’t far enough along for the doctor to know for sure. He told her to come back in a week. The 39-year-old San Antonio mom of one began to worry. Under Senate Bill 8, Texas’ new abortion law, even if the medical and developmental condition we...

Trump's new media company was recently announced. Chris Delmas/AFP/Getty Images Trump and DWAC leaders may have spoken about a merger in March, The New York Times reported. Securities laws restrict SPACs from discussions about mergers prior to their public listings. DWAC said in its S-1 filing it hadn't had "substantive" talks with potential targets. Get a daily selection of our top...

Special to Naples Daily News Q: I am a board member at my homeowner’s association (HOA). We have recently implemented electronic voting. We also asked that owners provide us with consent to send official association notices via email so we could save on postage and mailing. Our annual meeting is scheduled for December and a very contested election will be occurring. We just received an offi...

(CNN)Friday is the cruelest day for Russia's opposition. In small, overheated flats, coffee houses and newsrooms, journalists hover over their screens waiting to see if the Motherland has painted them with a stigma close to "traitor." What emerges on most Fridays, on the Russian justice ministry website, is the latest list of media outlets, and individuals, designated as "foreign agents." Ind...

SEATTLE — In the campaign to become Seattle’s next city attorney, the two candidates would like to tell you that their past remarks are not representative of who they are. One of the candidates, Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, is a self-described “abolitionist” who seeks to upend the criminal justice system. In Twitter posts last year, she celebrated those who set fires at a youth detention facility, ...

The University of Florida barred three faculty members from testifying for plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging a voting-restrictions law enthusiastically embraced by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), which activists say makes it harder for racial minorities to vote, in a move that raises sharp concerns about academic freedom and free speech in the state. The public university said the three political sc...

The full moon sets behind Hunt Mountain on a privately owned tract of forestland near Patten, Maine, in this Aug. 7, 2017, file photo. The forest is surrounded by land that now comprises the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. (AP/Robert F. Bukaty) Nearly half of the nation's forested lands are foreign-owned, which can have broad implications in multiple realms from policy to carbon ...