Friday, April 9, 2021
Infrastructure Plan Scuttlebutt
With Congress not returning to Washington, D.C., until next week, the White House’s American Jobs Plan proposal is still driving much of the political discussion in town this week. Of course, we still do not know what might be contained in an actual infrastructure bill, though we received a few clues this week regarding both process and substance surrounding the proposal.
Reconciliation an option for Dems. This week, Democrats indicated that the Senate parliamentarian had given them the green light to further use the budget reconciliation process to pass legislation with a majority of votes, thus avoiding a filibuster that requires 60 votes to overcome. Traditionally, use of the budget reconciliation process has been limited to once per fiscal year (which roughly translates to twice per calendar year because the fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30). Congressional Democrats used budget reconciliation to
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Chicago, Ill. (April 7, 2021) - The Illinois
Equal Pay Act (IEPA) has been amended to create significant new
requirements for Illinois employers. Governor J.B. Pritzker signed
Senate Bill 1480 (SB 1480) into law on March 23, 2021, effective
immediately.
The IEPA prohibits employers from paying unequal wages to men
and women who perform the same or substantially similar jobs,
except if the wage differential is based on a seniority system, a
merit system, a system measuring earnings by quantity or quality of
production, or factors other than an employee s gender. The
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The power of collective bargaining laws complicates the question of whether public employees can be required to get COVID-19 vaccinations before returning to their workplaces. It’s a big reason why San Diego Unified officials have urged all employees to get vaccinated but never made it mandatory.
Private employers, however, do have the right to require their workers to take the COVID-19 vaccine, subject to a handful of legally protected exceptions for disabilities and religious beliefs. That was the Dec. 16 guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in keeping with more than a century of court rulings dating to a 1905 Massachusetts case involving mandatory smallpox vaccinations in which t
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Published: April 8th, 2021
Reporting sheds light on Facebook’s hiring practices, Google I/O returns virtually this year, and Toronto schools are going remote.
It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Thursday, April 8 and I’m your host Baneet Braich.
A Washington Post story about Facebook’s hiring practices is adding fuel to claims the company discriminates against Black applicants. The story quotes a number of sources, as well as complaints filed to the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about managers telling Black applicants things like “There’s no doubt you can do the job, but we’re really looking for a culture fit.” Facebook has denied taking culture fit into account when hiring but and told the Post it was adding “diversity and inclusion goals to senior leaders’ performance reviews.”