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Philadelphia Workers Are Readying a Bill With a Basic Demand: Just Enforce the Law

Nannies, housekeepers and gig workers have already won legal protections. Now they want consequences for bosses who break the rules.

Capital & Main

Trump Blames Vice President Harris For Job Losses

Former President Trump criticizes Vice President Harris over job losses in North Carolina rally, citing hurricanes' impact on the economy.

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Is the Federal Property & Administrative Services Act Unconstitutional?

In an interesting dissent, Judge Allison Eid argues it violates existing nondelegation doctrine precedent.

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State attorneys general continue pushback against federal ESG labor rule

Attorneys general from 26 states are opposing the implementation of the U.S. Department of Labor’s rule permitting ESG considerations in Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)-governed pension plans in court. The states filed an appeal late last week seeking to reverse the dismissal of their case.

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Economy and Society, January 23, 2024: State attorneys general continue pushback against federal ESG labor rule

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

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Chevron meets ESG

The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

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What is the minimum wage in different states across the US?

Here is everything you need to know about state minimum wage laws in some states across the US

The Independent UK

U.S. Department of Labor filing shows actions discouraging unionizing at Lexington Webasto facility

A filing sent to the U.S. Department of Labor shows alleged action at the Lexington-based Webasto sunroof plant to discourage workers from potentially forming a union.

WEKU

Biden administration seeks to dismiss lawsuit challenging ESG retirement plan rule

The Biden administration on June 5 moved to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by states challenging a Department of Labor rule on the use of ESG factors in investment-related decisions for retirement funds governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The states filed suit earlier…

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A priest walked into this taqueria. The owner wanted employees to 'confess' sins at work

A Northern California taqueria under investigation for wage theft brought in a priest to get workers to "confess" about sins they had committed in the workplace, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Los Angeles Times

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Biden issues first veto of his presidency to uphold rule allowing for environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) in retirement investing

President Joe Biden (D) vetoed the first legislation of his presidency on March 20, 2023. Biden vetoed H. J. Res. 30, a joint resolution of disapproval under the terms of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) that sought to void a Department of Labor rule amending the Employee Retirement Income Security…

Fortune

Biden weighs in on the battle for the soul of Wall Street. Here’s how the president’s first veto will shape the way Americans’ money is managed

ESG investing is inherently apolitical. Investors have a duty to consider all economically relevant and useful information in their investment decisions.

The Independent UK

Guatemalan family fears deportation after 13-year-old daughter found working in Nebraska meat packing plant

Local service providers say children at the heart of probe fell out of view after the investigation

Tribune News Service

Biden taps Julie Su to lead Labor Department

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he would nominate Julie Su, the deputy secretary of labor and the preferred choice of the Congressional Black Caucus, to become secretary of the Department of Labor.

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House to vote this week on Department of Labor’s ERISA/ESG rule

Fox News reported on February 24 that the U.S. House will vote this week on a measure opposing the Labor Department’s rule allowing ESG consideration in ERISA-governed retirement funds:

The Philadelphia Inquirer

After they won their wage theft cases, they waited years to get paid. Some still wait

PHILADELPHIA — Two years after his boss shorted him thousands of dollars in pay for his construction work, Marcos Tlacopilco won in court.

Los Angeles Times

Why scammers who stole billions in unemployment benefits may get away with fraud

WASHINGTON — Just a small percentage of the at least $60 billion in unemployment payments estimated to be lost to fraud during the pandemic has been recovered, and time is running out to prosecute those who committed the crime.

The Independent UK

Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5M for hiring minors

The Department of Labor says one of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs at 13 meatpacking plants across the country

The Guardian - US

Over 100 children illegally employed by US slaughterhouse cleaning firm

Labor department investigation finds Packers Sanitation Services Inc employed children between ages of 13 and 17 in eight states

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Workers’ voices just got stronger — thanks to DHS

Workers across this country just got a big boost, and from an unlikely source: the Department of Homeland Security. How’s that?

Ballotpedia

States sue Biden administration over ESG in retirement plans

Twenty-five states announced on January 26 that they had filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration alleging that, in their view, the Department of Labor’s new rule allowing for the consideration of ESG factors in Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)-governed retirement investments increased portfolio risk and violated the law:

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