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The bill would have required companies leasing state land for clean energy projects to enter into contract with labor unions.

The bill would have required companies leasing state land for clean energy projects to enter into contract with labor unions.

Gov. Josh Shapiro has been promoting the success of maintaining jobs in Butler County as a result of his lobbying the Biden administration to reverse its rule that originally placed those jobs in harm...

Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a bill on Friday that would have required companies leasing state land for clean energy projects to work with unions hoping to represent their workers. The bill, L.D. 373, is aimed at the offshore wind power terminal and manufacturing facility the Mills administration aims to build in Searsport. Mills said she vetoed the bill because it contained ambiguous language and was too far-reaching in its scope.

The Department of Labor has approved a new overtime rule that will raise the annual salary threshold for non-exempt workers to qualify for overtime pay.

Gov. Jeff Landry will discuss his push for a constitutional convention with reporters Thursday morning as the proposal to pull together lawmakers and his appointed delegates for a thorough update of the foundational document for state government advances in the Legislature. The Landry administration’s point man for an update to the Louisiana Constitution used words […] The post Constitutional convention bill advances despite time crunch, clarity concerns appeared first on Louisiana...

Construction-in-progress spending climbs higher, with Top 25 firms accounting for 60%, as economists predict a megaproject boom will compound resource challenges.

Millions of salaried workers will soon qualify for overtime pay under a final rule released by the US Department of Labor on Tuesday.

Millions of salaried workers will soon qualify for overtime pay under a final rule released by the U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday.

More than 30 million Americans have signed employment contracts that limit their ability to switch jobs to a competing company.