A federal judge has ruled that the names of 150 recruiters, associates and “affiliates” of sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell will be made public after the first of the year,... Read more »
We’re Taking a Break . . . It’s that time of year. The Burnes Center for Social Change team that produces the Power At Work Blog is taking a well-deserved break from December... Read more »
The Hong Kong High Court ruled against Jimmy Lai in his challenge against the court’s jurisdiction to hear the charge of conspiracy to sedition on Friday. The court ruled that the prosecution... Read more »
A federal judge has ruled that Rudy Giuliani must immediately pay the $148 million in damages he owes for defaming two Georgia election workers, writing that Giuliani was unlikely to have his... Read more »
Federal agencies are ramping up efforts to regulate and restrict the use of restrictive covenant agreements in employment. Three states passed laws in 2023 that ban or severely curtail the use of... Read more »
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and US Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) issued their updated Merger Guidelines on December 18, 2023. These guidelines represent a significantly more enforcement-oriented approach than the prior... Read more »
US President Joe Biden reduced eleven non-violent drug prison terms and pardoned potentially thousands of marijuana possession offenses under federal law or in Washington, DC on Friday. Biden used his pardon power... Read more »
An investigation reveals that legislation known as Kendra’s Law, that has been held up as a national model for the treatment and handling of the seriously mentally ill by forcing them into... Read more »
The Chicago City Council voted on December 13, 2023, to amend the effective date of the Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance from December 31, 2023, to July... Read more »
On December 22, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed legislation that would have instituted a near-universal ban on non-competition provisions in New York after negotiations between the Governor and the bill’s... Read more »