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A core federal baseline requires for recording, but a minority of jurisdictions impose all‑party (often called “two‑party”) consent — commonly cited as 11 states — meaning every participant must agree...
The Supreme Court has intervened repeatedly in litigation over President Trump’s second-term executive orders, sometimes blocking lower-court orders that prevented administration actions and sometimes...
Employers and unions in 2025 responded to inflation with a mix of across‑the‑board raises, indexed minimum‑wage adjustments, targeted bargaining “openers,” and larger negotiated contract wins in high‑...
Barack Obama’s presidency generated a mix of legal challenges that fall into three clear categories: a flood of that were uniformly dismissed for lack of standing, with record legal costs in his final...
During Donald Trump’s first term and into the COVID crisis the U.S. labor market swung from historically low unemployment — 3.5% pre-pandemic — to a pandemic peak above 14% and then partial recovery, ...
Federal courts during and after the Obama administration blocked or limited several high-profile Obama-era executive actions — notably immigration directives like DACA/DAPA and other agency rules — wi...
California has dozens of statutory changes slated to take effect January 1, 2026, with especially large impacts in employment law (new pay-transparency and pay-equity rules, expanded remedies and reco...
Elon Musk gave at least hundreds of millions to pro‑Trump efforts in 2024–25 — filings and reporting put the total at $250M+ and other outlets report totals near $281M . Musk and his DOGE team promise...
Donald Trump’s record for “helping” working-class Americans is mixed and contested: his administration and supporters point to job growth and rising wealth for lower-income households, while analysts ...
Available reporting shows mixed impacts of Trump-era and Trump administration policies on nurses: some actions expanded scope or pay-equity reviews for advanced practice nurses (potentially increasing...
Employers across sectors regularly deploy a mix of legal, coercive, and illegal —from hiring anti‑union consultants and running captive‑audience meetings to tactical delays and targeted discipline—to ...
The 2025 federal government shutdown has forced widespread furloughs and operational suspensions across many agencies, with estimates of roughly , and critical programs such as SNAP facing imminent pa...
President Barack Obama was found by the Supreme Court to have exceeded his authority in a specific instance—his 2012 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board—resulting in a unanimous ...
The Obama administration litigated or was affected by several high-profile Supreme Court decisions that shaped health care, labor relations, campaign finance, and regulatory power; the most frequently...
Union membership as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics had not risen into 2025 — the most recent official snapshot showed the union membership rate at 9.9% in 2024 and the number of union memb...
Available reporting and public documents in the provided sources show no recent lawsuit or whistleblower complaint explicitly filed against the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation or its execut...
Undocumented workers commonly pay payroll and other taxes in the U.S., but the sources provided do not directly explain whether an employer can file Form W‑2 for a worker who lacks a Social Security n...
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been documented by multiple outlets and government sources to have , provoking bipartisan concern about privacy and cybersecurity. Reporting ...
The claim that the United States government is a “foreign corporation” with respect to a union state is not supported by the analyses provided: contemporary legal, tax, and political discussions cited...
treats racial epithets like “nigger” as potential unlawful harassment when they contribute to a hostile work environment, and the explicitly lists racial slurs as harassment examples . Courts and agen...