Congress banned arbitration agreements for sexual harassment claims. Even more stringent than that new federal legislation, Washington and California have both recently passed a Silenced No More Act, which restricts confidentiality provisions in certain agreements.
Healthcare employers may not realize that the newly enacted Illinois Freedom to Work Act will directly apply to restrictive covenant provisions for existing and new employees, including non-compete and non-solicitation provisions.
school staff member as well as child care worker vaccinated but only now in august are the teacher union who lobbied to keep schools closed during height of the pandemic and access to shots and figuring out stance on vaccinations. many of them are saying it should be negotiated in employee contracts, neil. neil: all right, jacqui, thank you for that. a lot of companies aren t only cracking down. some are pushing back, growing number of u.s. firms delaying their in-person return in the case of companies like facebook and amazon until well into next year. let s get to read on all of this from infectious disease doctor at john hopkins school, senior scholar there. doctor, good to have you. the companies that are delaying in-person return, most are about a month or so but some are pushing into the new year. what do you think of all that? doctor: it s understandable because the delta variant has
were important for the next mayor. one was to make sure the next employee contracts that get signed control pension health care costs, the other thing was what you re saying. the need to diversify the city s economy. he has worked on that, it s been challenging in new york. the city has been expensive. and focused on finance. it s good to draw people s attention to the need to do that. the reason people talk about cases like detroit, they re big and scary and get people to pay attention. you re right it can be a distraction. it draws people to these issues. we ve gone from spending about $500 million a year on pension contributions to spending $8.5 billion a year. the city spends a fifth of its budget on health care and pension costs. the likely negative outcome from that is not a detroit style outcome. the likely negative outcome foregoes investments.