The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Finance Ministry of Republika Srpska May 23 proposed an amendment to the income tax law. The proposed law would update the exemption for meals provided by an employer to...

The identity of whistleblowers' and journalists' confidential sources will be protected under new laws passed in Queensland today. The laws, known as shield laws, prevent journalists from being c...

Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook co-founder and chief executive, is “running away to the metaverse” to avoid resolving the divisive chaos his social media platform has unleashed on the world, said w...

Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law Senate Bill 3146, amending the Illinois “One Day Rest in Seven” Act (ODRISA), on May 13, 2022. Those amendments add additional meal period, day of rest, and...

SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Department of Labor will hold an online listening session for West Coast employees, employers and other stakeholders on June 3, 2022, on possible revisions to the regulat...

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Within the Labor & Employment Advice and Counseling Group at Lewis Brisbois, we talk up a storm. We talk to each other and we talk to our clients, every day, about all the new changes being i...

The German Ministry of Finance May 20 explained the 2022 wage tax program. The program includes: 1) a basic tax-free allowance of 10,347 euros (US$11,116); 2) an employee lump sum of 1,200 euros (...

SANTA CRUZ — The Santa Cruz City Council has agreed to a $250,000 out-of-court settlement with a former City Manager’s Office employee who claims she was fired in September after coming forward a...

A while back, the shebeen discussed the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a group of activists fighting a huge plastic plant proposed for a poverty-stricken, environmentally lethal slice of that state ca...