Beginning in July 2024, New York City employers will be required to distribute information regarding a "workers' bill of rights" that will be created via collaboration across a number of City agencies.
The Ministry also said that the COVID-19 vaccination drive scheduled to kick-start from January 16 is a massive country-wide exercise and will use the principles of people’s participation (Jan Bhagidari) and utilise the experience of elections (booth strategy) and the Universal Immunization Program (UIP).
The provision for mandatory publication of notice, derived through “simplistic reading” of the particular law, “would invade in the fundamental rights of liberty and privacy, including within its sphere freedom to choose for marriage without interference from state and non-state actors, of the persons concerned,” the court said in a judgement delivered on January 12.
A three-judge Bench led by Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman said the plea had to be considered by a Constitution Bench because the original verdict, striking down Section 497 (adultery) of the Indian Penal Code, was pronounced by a five-judge Bench in September 2018.
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In a recently designated precedential decision, the Patent Trials and Appeals Board (“PTAB”) considered challenges to claims covering autonomous robotic cleaning devices.
inter partes review over 35 U.S.C. § 312(a)(2) challenges by the patent owner. In its institution discussion, the PTAB determined that it does not need to resolve a dispute regarding a possible real party-in-interest (“RPI”) if the determination would not impact its institution decision. The PTAB declined to consider whether a non-party, JS Global Lifestyle Company Limited (“JS Global”), was an unnamed RPI. Instead, the decision considered 35 U.S.C. § 312(a)(2) determinations to be unnecessary for establishing PTAB jurisdiction.