A bill in the Illinois House would do away with the sub-minimum wage paid to waitresses, bartenders and other tipped service workers. Rep. Camille Lilly, D-Chicago, introduced House Bill 5139 las...

New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - February 15, 2022) - Over 100 years ago, the Council on Foreign Relations was formed as 'an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, pub...

What Happened In a bipartisan testament to the sustained momentum of the #MeToo movement, on February 10, 2022, the U.S. Senate joined with the House of Representatives’ earlier passage of the En...

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A new report by Mary Lawlor, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, calls for increased whistleblower protections as a key human rights mechanism. ...

Protected disclosures Bill to provide for transposition of EU directive into Irish law Michael McGrath said the directive was ‘among the most far reaching and most significant pieces of legisla...

Nada Culver, the Bureau of Land Management's deputy director for policy and programs, testifying on Capitol Hill last summer. Francis Chung/E&E News A senior Bureau of Land Management officia...

Two items on big labor’s wishlist have languished for months on end despite having Democratic control of Congress and President Joe Biden in the Oval Office. The first item on the list, the Prote...

Committee meeting comes amid controversy over accounts of internal conversations in Department of Health HSE chief executive Paul Reid and Department of Health secretary general Robert Watt had...

State House News Service After a couple of years of government coming to the aid of restaurants to help them survive the pandemic, state Sen. Lydia Edwards said it's time for workers to share in ...