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Employers must finance tests if worker is due an exemption Unvaccinated workers to be required to wear masks indoors The Biden administration’s highly anticipated vaccine mandate rule for private-sector employers will allow businesses to force workers who refuse to get the Covid-19 shot to pay for required weekly tests and masks, two sources familiar with the matter said. The emergency rule...

DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to look again at a law that allows communities to collect millions of dollars from poor criminal defendants to pay salaries, keep lights on and wax floors in courthouses up and down the state. The issue is whether it’s unconstitutional, especially when a judge knows a conviction will bring in cash and please local officials who count on the...

DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to look again at a law that allows communities to collect millions of dollars from poor criminal defendants to pay salaries, keep lights on and wax floors in courthouses up and down the state. The issue is whether it’s unconstitutional, especially when a judge knows a conviction will bring in cash and please local officials who count on the...

Police officers lift perimeter tape at the scene of a multiple shooting in the 700 block of North Trumbull Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago on Oct. 27, 2021. With the dramatic rise in violent crime across Chicago, it is expected that we will continue to see Illinois Democrats try to paint a new reality of the harm they have done to citizens across our state. The leading cri...

Re: “King County Board of Health in favor of repealing bicycle helmet law, but delays vote” [Oct. 21, Local News]: The apparent reasoning for this change in the law revolves around racial and income disparities of those ticketed for not wearing helmets. I call upon bike clubs and bike/scooter rental companies to make helmets available cheaply or free. I have ridden regularly on trails and str...

The Harford County Sheriff’s Department will repurpose an existing county facility in Aberdeen to serve as a central precinct and training facility for the local law enforcement. Harford County Executive Barry Glassman made the announcement Thursday afternoon at a news conference where officials pulled a black sheet from the front of the former HEAT building on Technology Drive in Aberdeen wh...

A euthanasia advocate who suffers from an incurable condition that atrophies her muscles and has left her breathing through a ventilator, lies in bed at her home in Lima, Peru, Feb. 7, 2020. New Zealand bishops have developed guidelines for health professionals, chaplains and priests to assist them in their pastoral work with people who decide to die under the country's End of Life Choice Act...

On November 1, 2021, the new Chinese Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) will come into effect. This law is modeled after the well-known European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Like the GDPR, the PIPL will apply not only to Chinese organizations, but also to any organization processing the personal information of people located in China. Therefore, any organization that col...

RAYNE, La. (KLFY) — Multiple law enforcement agencies are attempting to apprehend a suspect at large near I-10 in Rayne. The suspect is on the run from the police and wanted for a recent shooting in Abbeville and several felony warrants. Law enforcement identified the suspect as Jamie Davis of Abbeville. Law enforcement sources say that a murder suspect was chased by multiple agencies from Ab...

It is an understatement to say that much has changed in the employment space over the past 18 months. We have seen significant changes in employment legislation in response to the pandemic (most notably the furlough scheme, which recently concluded on 30 September 2021). The pandemic forced flexible working on many employers and employees, with many businesses adopting an increased flexible a...