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The US House of Representatives has voted 419-0 in support of a draft Email Privacy Act that would require US authorities to obtain a search warrant before accessing emails that are over 180 days old …

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The US health and safety bodies CDC and NIOSH have issued joint guidelines to employers on how to protect workers from the vicious Zika virus …

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The US Department of Labor has announced a new fiduciary obligation on financial advisers with effect from April 2017 …

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A suit has been filed by the US Chamber of Commerce against Seattle’s city administration for passing an ordinance last year allowing self-employed workers, like taxi and truck drivers, to join trade unions and enter into collective bargaining …

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Utah is the latest US State to tighten up post-employment restrictive covenants …

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Hard on the heels of a right in Texas to carry an armed pistol into the workplace comes a vote in the Kentucky Senate giving individuals and businesses a ‘licence to discriminate’ against LGBT people …

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The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that outside sales employees must continue being classed as exempt from minimum wage regulations, even when their commission payments are less than the minimum wage level …

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An appeal by the IRS, the US Tax service, could alter the whole way share-based remuneration is regarded for tax purposes within multinational enterprises …

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Just in case someone should want to kill their fellow man, the State legislature of Texas in the USA has now passed an ‘open carry’ law allowing any licenced handgun owner to carry their loaded weapon in a shoulder or hip holster in public …

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Draft legislation that would require employers to grant a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees has been approved by the legislature in the US state of Vermont …

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A study by the Maryland-based National Center for Health Statistics has found that overall mortality levels are significantly different in the USA compared to much of Europe …

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The US government is proposing the introduction of additional employer reporting obligations in an attempt to close the gender and race pay gap …

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The restructuring of the US labour market is continuing primarily to benefit white males taking up full-time employment in the retail and food service sectors …

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Whilst the US Federal minimum wage dates from 1938, in recent years there has been a progressive spread of state laws in the area of minimum wage — with all but nine states currently requiring employers to pay minimum rates above the federal level …

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The state legislature in Minnesota and a dozen other US states are currently considering new legislation designed to prevent employers and state authorities from accessing individual’s emails without first obtaining a court order …

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