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The seriousness of this issue seems apparent from the fact that military and veterans have participated in other violent extremist events. For example, the Oklahoma City bomber , Timothy McVeigh , had served with distinction in Operation Desert Storm but had earned a reputation as a sergeant for assigning undesirable work to black servicemen ...
September 20 – The United States Supreme Court rules in favor of a Democratic Party bid to withhold the Green Party from the Nevada ballot for the 2024 presidential election, which was caused by the Nevada Secretary of State mistakenly directing the Green Party to use an incorrect affidavit form for ballot qualification. [7]
The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA, Pub. L. 103–353, codified as amended at 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301–4335) was passed by U.S. Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton on October 13, 1994 to protect the civilian employment of active and reserve military personnel in the United States called to active duty.
As of July 1, 2024, hourly workers making the equivalent of $43,888 a year are eligible for overtime pay, up from $35,568, which will increase to $58,656 on Jan. 1, 2025.
The overtime rule is one of the most far-reaching economic reforms that President Joe Biden has fought for. ... November 15, 2024 at 1:27 PM.
In 2016, then-President Barack Obama asked the Labor Department to overhaul federal overtime rules and raise the salary threshold to $47,476 a year, or $913 a week. That would have roughly doubled ...
While no direct military retaliation was initiated, more than 600 Nevada Air Guardsmen were activated on one-day notice for service in South Korea and various places around the United States. [12] A Nevada Army National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter operates during a firefighting training in northern California in 2015.
Some 3.6 million salaried workers would newly qualify for overtime pay under a proposed rule unveiled by the US Department of Labor on Wednesday. It would guarantee overtime pay of at least time ...