TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Teachers and other government employees will have to write monthly checks if they want to stay in their union after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Tuesday banning automatic dues deductions from public employees’ paychecks,
The anti-union bill also gives employees the right to immediately quit a union for no reason and requires unions to recertify if the number of dues-paying members drops below 60% of those eligible to join.
“If you want to join, you can, but you write a check and you hand it over. That is gonna lead to more take-home pay…
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CanadaCameron Hardy, who represented himself in court, was charged with ‘contempt in the face of the court’ for refusing to recognize its legitimacyAuthor of the article:The Canadian Press
Darryl GreerPublished April 21, 2023 • Last updated 3 days ago • 3 minute readThe courthouse in Prince Rupert, BC “The courts of British Columbia are legitimate, or they are not. There is no middle ground,” the judge ruled. Photo by Google StreetViewArticle content
PRINCE RUPERT — A provincial court judge in Prince Rupert, BC, has sentenced a 46-year-old man to a…
On February 16, 2023, the Illinois House introduced a bill titled the Small Business Truth in Lending Act. This proposed legislation, similar to statutes that have been enacted in other states, was written with the stated purpose of protecting small business owners from predatory lending through heightened disclosure requirements in commercial financing agreements. The bill sets forth disclosure requirements similar to that of the federal Truth In Lending Act, which applies primarily to consumer lending. And, speaking of consumer lending, the bill also (somewhat disjointly) could be read to create additional regulatory and rulemaking authority in the consumer-lending context. While…
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has determined that while the City of Cambridge breached its own procedural bylaw, it will also reject an application from a citizens’ committee to review the building of an Amazon Warehouse.
The citizens’ committee was Blair Engaged – who were seeking a judicial review of a decision made by the City of Cambridge to allow for a one million square foot warehouse/distribution center within the Blair Village Heritage Conservation District. Amazon has said the one-million-square-foot warehouse will create more than 1,000 jobs.
An Amazon warehouse under construction in the Village of Blair. (Colton Wiens/CTV…
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Stormy Daniels must pay nearly $122,000 of Donald Trump’s legal fees that were racked up in connection with the porn actor’s failed defamation lawsuit, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.Article content
The decision in California came at about the same time that Trump became the only ex-president to be charged with a crime. Trump pleaded not guilty in a New York City courtroom to a 34-count felony indictment accusing him of falsifying business records in a scheme to hush up allegations of extramarital affairs with Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal that broke during his first White House…