Digital collage by Ryan Stevens; image sources by Wilfried Pohnke & Shafin Al Asad Protic from Pixabay  If your business has more than 100 employees, this news will certainly impact you.  As DMGS noted last month, the [...]

Digital image by Ryan Stevens In this week’s State Capital Recap, lawmakers around the country addressed various issues including guaranteed income, medical and recreational marijuana, critical race theory, to-go cocktails, and more. California California lawmakers scheduled a [...]

Digital image by Ryan Stevens; image sources by PIRO4D and LoveBuiltLife from Pixabay  If you are going to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and are employed, does your employer allow COVID-19 vaccination paid leave?  This is a question [...]

Digital Collage by Ryan Stevens; image source by David Mark from Pixabay DMGS Article Highlights President Biden's first 100 days began with an early blitz of executive action.Biden's four overlapping and compounding crises he is focusing on are [...]

Image Collage by Alana Burman In Michigan, lawmakers recently passed a package of legislation to address various COVID-19 policies, including those related to extending unemployment benefits and addressing COVID-19 liability. Unemployment Benefit Extension Senate Bill [...]

DMGS Article Highlights Earlier this year, DMGS took an in-depth look at Nevada’s two special sessions that convened this past summer.  Like Nevada, Louisiana has also convened two special sessions this year.  Louisiana’s second special [...]

H.R. 8337 would extend government funding through December 11, 2020, averting a government shutdown that would otherwise begin October 1.  The continuing resolution (CR) would generally extend fiscal 2020 funding levels while including some “anomalies” [...]

In 2018, Pennsylvania became the first state to enact a "Clean Slate" law. DMGS Article Highlights Pennsylvania was the first state to enact a "Clean Slate" law and automatically sealing certain criminal records.Numerous states, like [...]

by: Ryan J. Stevens Digital Collage by Alana Burman Congress passed the CARES Act nearly six months ago, which provided roughly $2 trillion to individuals, businesses, and states in response to the global coronavirus pandemic.  [...]

Key Points The gig economy is based on flexible or temporary jobs that allow for freelancing;Gig economy workers are not guaranteed the same benefits as employees, such as a minimum wage standard and access to [...]