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Norris Harvey can’t work anymore because he can’t renew his driver’s license. Harvey can’t renew his driver’s license because he owes $2,795 in tickets and penalties to the D.C. government.
Under D.C.’s current rules, residents can enter a payment plan if they owe $250 or more in parking and traffic tickets, and are able to pay the total debt within six months and at least 25 percent of the sum upfront. Harvey tried to pay off his debt to the D.C. government under a payment plan. But medical expenses associated with a heart attack he suffered made it impossible to meet the agreement. Residents cannot enter a new payment plan after failing to comp
From D.C. currently offers city workers up to eight weeks of paid parental leave, but it does not offer leave for a stillborn child. Tyrone Turner/WAMU/DCist
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Update: The D.C. Council tabled a bill Tuesday that would have granted city employees two weeks of paid leave following the death of a family member or a stillbirth. Councilmember Elissa Silverman (D-At Large) plans to expand the scope of the bill and will reintroduce it next month,
Original story: The D.C. Council is expected to vote on emergency legislation Tuesday that would grant city employees two weeks of paid bereavement leave following the death of a family member or a stillbirth.
Washington City Paper What the Council Passed in Its Final Legislative Session MPD to no longer cooperate with ICE, a ban on some non-competes, criminal justice reform, and more.
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D.C. agencies will no longer be able to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as the Metropolitan Police Department and Department of Corrections have in the past. Nor will most employers be able to use non-compete clauses in employment agreements and workplace policies, which are occasionally used in the hospitalityindustry. The Cou
James hasn’t received his unemployment benefits in 78 days.
After being laid off from his bartending jobs at Streets Market and Cranes in March, he successfully applied for unemployment insurance. His benefits ran out after 26 weeks, as is customary, so he applied for Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, a 13-week extension of benefits the federal government pays under the CARES Act.
Despite placing more than 300 calls and sending more than 100 emails to unemployment offices in D.C. and Virginia, the Ward 8 resident has yet to see a cent. (James is a pseudonym because he fears being named would mean the unemployment offices would stop returning his emails altogether.)