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The following holidays are observed by the majority of US businesses with paid time off: New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, [2] Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after known as Black Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas. There are also numerous holidays on the state and local level that are observed to varying degrees.
Left unsigned by President Ronald Reagan and became law on August 4, 1988. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a U.S. labor law that protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of ...
The shutdown affected the employees' entitlement to paid holidays due to the shutdown. [130] Unemployment assistance to federal workers furloughed under the government shutdown varied by locality. Only non-reporting workers were eligible for assistance, whereas furloughed workers who still reported to work were not. Workers who received ...
U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 233,000 last week, down 17,000 claims from 250,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis. Utah saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims ...
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The Conference Agreement included in this bill states that contributions by all federal civilian employees entering service after December 31, 2012, who have less than five years of creditable civilian service (revised annuity employees), will be subject to a 2.3% increase in their retirement annuity, a sharp increase from the current 0.8%.
Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency agreed to pay $55 million in April and make changes to how it processes claims as part of a settlement it reached in a lawsuit filed by several workers who ...
Abraham Lincoln, First Annual Message (1861) Like slavery, common law repression of labor unions was slow to be undone. In 1806, Commonwealth v. Pullis held that a Philadelphia shoemakers union striking for higher wages was an illegal "conspiracy", even though corporations —combinations of employers—were lawful. Unions still formed and acted. The first federation of unions, the National ...