A federal court has issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) from enforcing provisions of a law that would have required staffing agencies to provide temporary employees the same wages and equivalent benefits as their clients' comparable employees.
Legislation recently signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker will expand leave for bereaving a child and for mourning victims of violent crime; establish new leave for organ donation; and provide protections for freelance workers and temporary workers.
Temporary workers in New Jersey will have greater protections against unpaid wages, unsafe working conditions, unlawful deductions, and other forms of mistreatment under the recently signed Temporary Workers' Bill of Rights.
Taking effect April 1, 2023, the Fair Work Week Ordinance will require certain retailers in Los Angeles to provide most employees with two weeks' advanced notice of their work schedules and predictability pay for certain schedule changes.
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