Maryland legislators last week killed a proposal that would have required restaurants to charge more for certain sugary drinks sold with children’s meals. The legislation, HB 1090, was filed by Baltimore City Delegate Cheryl Glenn in the House and a companion bill by Senator Shirley Nathan-Pulliam. It was rejected again this session by the House…
Read More »CFA’s annual CFA Day Forum will be held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC, next week on March 24 – 25, 2015. Although there’s not much time left for planning, we encourage you to make the effort and help the CFA defend your business in the nation’s capital. The program includes a number…
Read More »Job Creators Network is poised to launch the second “Franchise Friday” as part of an ongoing campaign to defend the franchise system from the NLRB and its “joint employer” recommendation. The NLRB rule is unacceptable and will irreparably harm one of the most successful business models this nation has seen in the past half-century. On Friday,…
Read More »Starbucks was making news regularly this past week, when their annual shareholder meeting was being held. First off, CEO Howard Schultz announced the company was jumping into the race relations conversation with their #Race Together initiative via a full-page ad in last Sunday’s New York Times. Having their baristas write race together messages on their…
Read More »Major small business representatives formally requested that the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) delay moving businesses with between 51 and 99 employees into the small group market, subjecting them to additional benefit and premium rating requirements. For employers with between 51 and 99 employees, the law contained a provision allowing them 2 full…
Read More »It was not the least bit surprising when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker this week signed into law Right to Work legislation making Wisconsin the 25th state to enact right-to-work laws. The law makes it illegal to require the payment of union dues as a requirement of employment. Walker, a likely GOP presidential candidate for the…
Read More »Just days after Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed the new Wisconsin new Right to Work legislation into law, organized labor expressed their strong disapproval by filing suit challenging the new law as an unconstitutional transfer of property in that unions would still be required under federal law to provide services to employees who choose not…
Read More »The Texas State Legislature does not want to see the NLRB redefine the role of a franchisor in the context of joint-employer status and is advancing legislation that will specifically exclude a franchisor from that category within the Lone Star State! SB 652 was favorably reported out of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and…
Read More »An array of bills seeking to increase the minimum wage in the state of Maine are under consideration by the legislature in the capital of Augusta. The minimum wage battle is shaping up as a classic one in light of the fact that the recently re-elected popular republican Governor Paul LePage is advocating right to…
Read More »Minimum wages are not the only issues being considered in the state of Maine as the Environment and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing earlier this week on a bill that will ban the use of Styrofoam food and beverage containers in the state. Lincolnville democratic representative Christine Burstein filed the legislation which was the…
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