Vermont business owners and independent contractors have until 4 p.m. Friday to apply for disaster unemployment assistance.
People seeking assistance through the DUA program must first apply for regular unemployment benefits by calling 877-214-3330, according to a press release from the Vermont Department of Labor. As part of the application, they should state that their…
Editor and Executive Director Anne Galloway speaks at VTDigger’s 10th anniversary celebration at The Alchemist in Stowe on Sunday, August 25, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
Join us on October 12 at 6 p.m. at the Sugarbush Resort in Warren, as we raise our glasses to celebrate the indomitable spirit of VTDigger Founder Anne Galloway and honor her unwavering…
On the New York State Register published proposed changes
concerning appeals to the Commissioner of Education pursuant
Education Law Section 310.* The proposed amendments were filed by the New York State Department of Education “to ensure that the appeals process serves as an
expeditious and simple method to address questions [involving] school administration.”The text…
Inside Higher Ed notes “a new rule, which is stronger than versions released during the Obama
administration, adds new disclosure requirements for all academic programs
despite opposition from across the higher education industry.”
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New York State Workers’ Compensation
Board continues to offer its webinar series for workers and their
advocates. Workers’ Comp 202: Best Practices to Access Benefits for Workers, A
presentation by the Office of the Advocate for Injured Workers, webinars are currently scheduled as listed below. The sessions are free and time for questions will …
Keith N. Hylton, Boston University School of Law, has posted Originalism, Official History, and Perspectives versus Methodologies:This paper addresses a well-worn topic: originalism, the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution in a manner consistent with the intent of its framers. I am interested in the real-world effects of originalism. The primary effect…
Sharareh Abdolhoseinzadeh is a law student and a PhD in Political Sociology. She files this from Tehran.
A few days ago, the Iranian Parliament approved a plan that, if approved by the Guardian Council of the Constitution, would destroy the limited independence of the hundred-year-old Iranian Bar Association. According to this resolution, lawyers’ associations will…
Following a months-long blockade that culminated in violent attacks by Azerbaijani forces, the government of the predominantly ethnic Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh announced Thursday it would disband, effective immediately.
“The Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh … ceases to exist,” the separatist republic — referred to in Armenian as Artsakh — stated via its official information channel on…
Department Announces Proposal to Extend Overtime Pay to Millions of Workers
Jeremy V. Farrell, Esq., jfarrell@tuckerlaw.com, (412) 594-3938
On August 30, 2023, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) announced a new proposed rule that would make approximately 3.5 million more workers eligible for overtime pay. Like other recent similar proposals, this one…
My Georgetown Law colleagues Kevin Tobia, Neel U. Sukhatme, and Victoria Nourse have posted Is Originalism Orthodoxy?The modern Supreme Court has vocally embraced originalism in controversial cases from religion to abortion to guns. Scholars from right and left now urge that it is critical to understand precisely what the Court’s originalism is. Legal…
