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Near Empty Office PHOTO: Will Morgan When you have employees working in several states that are different from your business’s “home state” or physical location(s), there are a myriad of leave laws you will need to consider. Usually, the most generous law is upheld, but there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. Leave laws typically apply based on where an employee physically works, but that’s...

Panama has expressed concern over possible further damage to the country's reputation from the new leak following the fallout from the 'Panama Papers' in 2016 (AFP/Luis ACOSTA) A prestigious Panamanian law firm was named in the so-called "Pandora Papers" as implicated in the creation of offshore shell companies meant to hide money in tax havens for more than 160 politicians and public figures...

Singapore's parliament is to debate a controversial bill to tackle alleged 'foreign interference' [File: Wallace Woon/EPA] Singapore’s parliament is debating controversial legislation that the government says is necessary to counter alleged foreign interference, but opposition parties, rights groups, social media platforms and others worry is too broad in scope. The so-called Foreign Interfer...

Editor’s note: Following is a column submitted by the Wisconsin State Patrol. Law enforcement officers and emergency responders are often the first to help on Wisconsin highways, but stepping out on the side of the road is one of the most dangerous parts of the job. In 2020, 69 workers were hurt and two were killed while responding to an emergency in Wisconsin. All 50 states have a Move Over ...

Media Credit: Sydney Walsh | Staff Photographer Kate Weisburd, the study's lead researcher, said many individuals don’t have stable housing or reliable electricity access to recharge their monitors on time, leading some to reincarceration. A law professor found that wearing an ankle monitor during probation or parole is just as restrictive as incarceration in a report published late last mo...

A broker-dealer settled SEC charges for violations of Regulation SHO ("Short Sales") related to the firm's merger arbitrage trading by mismarking short sales as long sales, and failing to obtain and document a locate prior to effecting short sales. According to the Order, the SEC determined that the broker-dealer mismarked more than 1,000 short sales as long sales in its customers' accounts, ...

On September 29, 2021, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed an extension of the Massachusetts COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Leave Law, which was set to expire September 30, 2021, and expanded slightly the reasons for which employees can use leave. A more detailed description of the law can be found here. The law, which went into effect May 28, 2021, created a new sick leave entitlement ...

(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) Every year, the four optimist clubs of St. Joseph hold a banquet for law enforcement. Club organizers were happy to get the chance once again to gather in person on Saturday at the Remington Nature Center. The dinner gives each local department the chance to nominate someone from within. "We missed it very much last year," Harold Stewart, coordinator, Respect for Law Banquet...

Transmission lines leading to a electric substation in Charles City County. (Sarah Vogelsong/Virginia Mercury) Dominion Energy’s Virginia customers could see as much as $372 million in refunds if state regulators agree with public utility commission staff and Virginia’s attorney general about how the utility’s hundreds of millions of dollars related to coal plant closures over the past four y...

Anti-abortion demonstrators pray and protest outside of a Whole Women’s Health of North Texas, Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, in McKinney, Texas. A federal judge did not say when he would rule following a nearly three-hour hearing in Austin during which abortion providers sought to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which has banned most abortions in Texas since early September....