Nearly two-and-a-half years after it was originally proposed, the Allegheny County Council passed a Paid Sick Leave law (the “Act”) in September 2021 to require employers to provide certain emplo...

Starting Saturday, shoppers in three Northern Virginia communities will have to pay 5 cents for plastic bags, District residents will no longer be able to use gas-powered leaf blowers to clean th...

New York state lawmakers voted to pass dozens of new laws in the past year that will go into effect in 2022. The laws are aimed at helping consumers and workers in the state, improving public saf...

If 2021 had a battle cry for U.S. lawmakers facing off with the world's biggest tech companies, it would be this: "Legislation is coming." This year, lawmakers went beyond just grilling companies...

The government has confirmed new Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates from 1 April 2022. The new living wage and national minimum wage rates for the various categories of worker are as f...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Come Jan. 1, 2022, two major policies will go into effect in Michigan. On the first day of 2022, the first minimum wage increase in more than a year will go into effect, with t...

It's not often that bacon leads a roundup of new laws taking effect with the New Year in California. But even in progressive California, that's the headline-grabber. It's among a host of other le...

Workers in 21 states will see a rise in the minimum wage in the new year. As 2022 begins, some states will enact pay bumps ranging from cents to dollars per hour. Many of the increases will go in...

According to Brook Jackson, a whistleblower who worked on Pfizer’s Phase 3 COVID jab trial in the fall of 2020, data were falsified, patients were unblinded, the company hired poorly trained peop...

Both parties want to avoid a strike. But as the busiest time of the year for Utah’s ski areas comes to a close, Vail-owned Park City Mountain Resort still hasn’t successfully negotiated a contrac...