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Workers, allies push California fast food law - People's World
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A coalition of more than 50 groups, led by the Economic Policy Institute and including workers advocates and civic allies, is pushing a landmark law in California to empower fa...
Read moreOne Year Later: Addressing Whistleblower Risks Under the AMLA | New York Law Journal - Law.com
The Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) of 2020 is the most significant piece of anti-money laundering (AML) legislation since the enactment of the USA PATRIOT Act more than 20 years ago. AMLA, sign...
Read moreDissecting the Directive: Understanding the EU's Whistleblowing Policy - Business Leader
At the end of last year new legislation was brought in to implement The Whistleblower Directive (2019/1937) (the Directive). Within the remaining 27 EU member states, companies and public bodies ...
Read more'Emperor's new clothes': Whistleblowers rubbish EA chair's rivers rebuttal - ENDS Report
Environment Agency chair Emma Howard Boyd has hit back at criticisms from agency staff over the regulator’s performance, but insiders say her claims are “ridiculous” and a “smokescreen”. Stay si...
Read moreAmazon factory whistleblower asks Bezos to help overturn conviction - Business Insider
Tang Mingfang was jailed after disclosing illegal working practices at a Foxconn factory making Amazon products. Tang says he was tortured during the police interrogation process that led to his...
Read more'Whistleblower' sacked after saying energy firm ripped off customers wins payout - WalesOnline
A call centre worker sacked after claiming Scottish Power was 'knowingly' overcharging customers for their energy bills has won a 28,000 payout. Thippawan MacLean told a tribunal she felt it was ...
Read moreMonday's letters: Ideal surgeon general, minimum wage cut, tortoise deaths, more - Yahoo News
Ladapo ideal choice for surgeon general One would expect a brilliant Gov. Ron DeSantis (with cum laude degrees from Yale and Harvard Law) to make brilliant picks. He did not disappoint when he pi...
Read moreMedical Staffing Agency Ordered by Federal Court to Pay Nurses, Aides More than $7.2M in Back Wages - HealthLeaders Media
Steadfast Medical Staffing 'willfully' misclassified workers and shortchanged their overtime pay, U.S. Department of Labor says. KEY TAKEAWAYS Steadfast Medical Staffing of Norfolk, Virginia, mis...
Read moreCases spike at Fort Worth prison; whistleblower complaint says top staff have no COVID plan - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Two years into the pandemic, federal prisons — including one in Fort Worth — still do not have COVID-19 under control. Executive staff at federal prisons are failing to follow the Bureau of Priso...
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Muncie man charged with filing false COVID-19 claims - The Star Press
MUNCIE, IN — A Muncie man has been charged in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis with filing false COVID-19 claims. Gregory Vernon Dupree II, 38, in a federal indictment has been charged with eigh...