Photo credit: iStock.com/Fahroni In most of the United States, you can pull into a gas station and pump your own gas. However, according to the National Association of Convenience Stores, self-serve gas stations did not [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/Nadezhda Kurbatova As unions reassert themselves in 2023, some state legislatures are considering bills allowing legislative staff to form unions. The Oregon Legislative Assembly became the first state legislature to have a unionized [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/Zerbor Could your state raise its minimum wage in 2023 or in the near future? In 2021, the Pew Research Center reported that six-in-ten U.S. adults (62%) favored raising the federal minimum wage [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/William_Potter Non-competes are contractual agreements between an employer and employee that typically restrict employees from working for a competitor or starting their own ventures within a specific geographic area and timeframe. Once [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/PrathanChorruangsak Companies nationwide switched to remote working with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. With remote work seemingly here to stay for some workers and industries, several states are legislating to incentivize [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/Andrii Zastrozhnov Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, recently made headlines by calling for a four-day, 32-hour workweek. Sanders cited a recent four-day workweek pilot [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/TopMicrobialStock Several state legislatures are clarifying and regulating the qualifications necessary to be a crematory operator or a funeral director, both out-of-state reciprocal funeral licenses and in-state licensing. Minnesota Reciprocal Mortuary Science Licensure [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/pabradyphoto According to a four-year joint study led by the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Governors Association, and the State Government Affairs Council, occupational licensing has gone from comprising about 5% of the [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/Jikaboom In the United States, while employees may not be compelled to join a union, 23 states permit employers to enter into agreements with unions that distribute the costs of collective bargaining to [...]

Digital image by Ryan Stevens; image source by geralt from Pixabay Discrimination against employees and job applicants based on their criminal histories is receiving new legislative attention through ban the box legislation. Many state legislatures [...]