ORANGE COUNTY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (“Virgin Galactic” or the “Company”), notified all employees today, Tuesday, November 7 of a strategic realignment of the Company’s resources and a related workforce reduction to support the production of its Delta Class spaceships. Virgin Galactic’s senior leadership will share additional details on the Company’s […]
10/20/2023Contact: Trevor Monk, dlipress@pa.gov Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) today released its preliminary employment situation report for September 2023.Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate was down one-tenth of a percentage point over the month to 3.4% in September, setting a new record low (records date back to January 1976). The U.S. unemployment rate was unchanged from August […]
Passengers keep distance in a line at Dubai International Airport, as Emirates airline resumed limited outbound passenger flights amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Dubai, UAE April 27, 2020. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah Acquire Licensing RightsCAIRO – Aug 28 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates said it will resume issuing tourist visas to vaccinated […]
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned long-standing decisions that said abortion is a constitutional right, the legality of abortion became something that is now determined by individual states.That decision, issued in June 2022 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Dobbs), overturned Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade (Roe) and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey (Casey). Previously, […]
10/20/2023Contact: Trevor Monk, dlipress@pa.gov Harrisburg, PA –The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) has fined a Cambria County-based drywall company $32,250 for misclassifying 43 construction workers, a violation of the Pennsylvania Construction Workplace Misclassification Act (Act 72). Worker misclassification occurs when an employer wrongly classifies a worker as an independent contractor instead of an employee, denying them essential employee rights and […]
LOS ANGELES, CA — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety Subcommittee, was joined by immigrant advocates and labor leaders at a press conference to announce the introduction of his legislation, the Citizenship for Essential Workers Act.Padilla is urging Congress not to leave behind the over five million essential workers without permanent legal status that kept […]
Labor shortages are a pressing concern for policymakers and employers alike in many countries around the world. As pandemic-era economic disruptions have collided with longer-running workforce trends, these shortages have become more acute but also hard to predict.Immigration can play an important role in addressing labor shortages—and in some economies and sectors, already does. But […]
Michigan courts, community agencies and libraries are building out the network of centers to provide legal help for people who can’t afford an attorney in civil cases.Criminal defendants have a right to a publicly funded attorney, but that is not true for parties to legal actions such as debt collection cases, landlord-tenant disputes, and divorce […]
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