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If employer properly withholds child and/or spousal support from earnings, debtor can’t be held in contempt

The Supreme Court of California is set to rule in three PAGA cases that may have substantial implications for employers. The cases deal with when arbitration agreements can be enforced.

Comelec-Davao to establish satellite voters’ registration

MANILA - President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Monday renewed his call for Congress to thoroughly review the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF), citing that getting it wrong would be "a very bad mistake." Marcos made this remark after Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri said he expects the bill establishing the MIF to be passed by the upper chamber on final reading after the Holy Week in March. To recall, the House of Representatives passed House Bill (HB) 6608 or the proposed Mah...

MANILA - President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Monday renewed his call for Congress to thoroughly review the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF), citing that getting it wrong would be "a very bad mistake." Marcos made this remark after Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri said he expects the bill establishing the MIF to be passed by the upper chamber on final reading after the Holy Week in March. To recall, the House of Representatives passed House Bill (HB) 6608 or the proposed Mah...

The possibility of a bipartisan bond between two local Congressmen from opposing political parties is not out of the realm of possibility.

Editor’s Note: In regulatory news, the Colorado AG published a second version of its proposed regulations. In U.S. litigation, Meta and TikTok both faced further litigation, and an...

California employers are all too familiar with the dreaded word “PAGA” – the Private Attorneys General Act. This infamous law gives employees the legal right to prosecute lawsuits...

African Community Education, a Worcester nonprofit serving African immigrants and refugees, will receive $3 million from the new federal budget to renovate its new center in Worcester.

BACOLOD CITY - Negros Occidental Third District Rep. Jose Francisco Benitez underscored the need to thresh out "significant details" for the creation of the Negros Island Region (NIR) amid the opposition by Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo. "I feel that the way the consolidated measure has been phrased gives him the opportunity later on to ensure that whatever emerges (from the discussions) will benefit everyone," Benitez, one of the bill's main authors, said in a pre...