senator Claire Mccaskill regarding the effectiveness of federal programs which provide military equipment to state and local police departments in the U.S. The views presented include a positive impact on public and officer safety from 1033 and other programs, the blurring of the difference between...
Under federal law, airlines are liable for up to $3,500 per passenger for lost baggage, although individual airlines can offer more coverage if they want. File a claim through your personal insurance. Assuming that the money you get from the airline isn't enough to cover your loss, your ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama teachers and public school employees are retiring at the highest levels seen in nearly a decade, state records show.
Florida Leads as State and Local Governments Sign on for Trump's Mass Deportations The roster of police departments and state agencies that have joined President Donald Trump’s drive for mass deportations has soared to more than 500, with nearly half from Florida ...
Non-exempt employees, in contrast, earn hourly wages. The FLSA establishes protections for non-exempt employees to ensure they receive fair compensation for their work. Non-exempt employees must receive minimum wages that align with the federal or state wage laws. In addition, some jurisdictions re...
Police officers can workfor the city, county, state, or federal government. Their jurisdiction and the size of the police department they work for play a major role in shaping their day to day duties. How many NYPD died in 911? 37 police officers of the Port Authority of New York and ...
American countered that the skycaps suit was preempted by the federal Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. When a federal law preempts a state law on an issue, the federal statute has sole jurisdiction, and the state statute is preempted and nullified for purposes of that dispute.The District ...
First, business leaders haven’t effectively explained to employees how AI could help them. Many workers have filled the communications gap by focusing on predictions of jobs being replaced en masse by software. “In absence of the clear vision of increasing productivity [with AI], people are le...
(n = 3460)—i.e., largely municipal police departments. This pattern held across incidents involving only one agency as well as those involving multiple agencies (5% of total; see Table1). Around 8% of deaths involved state law enforcement agencies and about 3% involved federal agencies....
Kennedy allowed federal employees to organize. That came around the same era that states also began to pass labor laws for their own public workers. Some states in the South and lower Midwest “will allow police and firefighters to collectively bargain, but not state employees. Or ...