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WORCESTER — Identity thieves have used personal information of more than 550 city employees to file claims for unemployment insurance benefits, a nationwide scheme that is skyrocketing as millions of people rely on the supplemental benefits to feed their families and pay bills during the pandemic.
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The EEOC stated that “employees with disabilities were repeatedly denied reasonable accommodations, including assistive devices, modified work schedules, and reassignment.”
Instead of engaging in the interactive process and discussing and providing accommodations, the EEOC claims the health care company forced employees to quit.
The EEOC also announced another case, this
WARWICK — House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello on Thursday recalled being incensed to learn that a mailer from a failed Republican candidate endorsing him was sent to voters just before Election Day during a tight race in 2016.
“I was angry at the mailer,” Mattiello testified. “I thought that it was
Salzman pointed out that Brnovich never made an attempt to intervene in the case when it was filed. That put Hobbs in the role of deciding how to defend the law and, more to the point, when to stop, she said.
She pointed out that Brnovich and Hobbs have squabbled
According to the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, 58,616 of the 1.6 million unemployment claims, and claims for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program, which provides benefits to contractors and people who are self-employed, filed between March 8 and June 30, were determined to be fraudulent.
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SINGAPORE – Young people can better understand their legal rights and get help with legal advice under a new pilot scheme announced on Monday (Sept 28).
The Youth Community and Legal Clinic will bring together volunteer young lawyers and law students to provide free legal online consultation services to youth
Prompted by recent tweets from the president, BuzzFeed News has asked a federal judge to order the government to declassify and release thousands of pages of documents about investigations related to Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and allegations that President Donald Trump tried to obstruct one of the
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A top Dutch legal body said on Friday that it was probably not “legally sustainable” to levy a one-time tax on Unilever
The bill by the opposition Green Left party for an “exit tax” is one
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Wednesday opened a criminal investigation to establish the cause of unexplained toxic pollution off its far eastern coast that has killed sea creatures and led to their carcasses being washed ashore.
Greenpeace warned last week of an ecological disaster in waters off the Kamchatka region,
The attorney for two Ahwatukee Lakes residents asked the U.S. Supreme Court to quickly reject golf course owner Wilson Gee’s request for a review of his case, calling his lawyer’s argument “a legal and historical absurdity.”
“Perhaps his actions fit our times – litigate to the bitter end, irrespective
A civil war inside Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office intensified Thursday when top lieutenants for the second time — and in greater detail — accused Paxton of giving improper preferential treatment to an Austin developer who was under federal investigation.
In a letter sent to Paxton on Wednesday and
At least four U.S. Postal Service drop-off boxes have been vandalized in the past couple weeks and Fort Smith residents are concerned at the timing with less than a month to go until the
Magic circle firm Linklaters is to combine legal advice with diversity training in a new client offering.
A ‘diversity faculty’ will provide clients with a mixture of legal employment advice and strategic business guidance around diversity and inclusion issues. The firm said the service is designed to help clients manage
DeVos would become one of the most high-profile Trump officials known to have been investigated for violating the Hatch Act. Depending on what OSC finds, she would be the second member of the Trump Cabinet to be found to have violated the law. At least 12 Trump senior officials have
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Rudy Giuliani, president Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, was on Tuesday night apparently spotted maskless at a GOP fundraising event in New York – a day after coughing his way through a Fox News interview.
The former New York mayor appears to have been pictured addressing
BELLAIRE, Michigan — Thirteen people face charges after investigators said they participated in a plot to abduct and execute Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
The charges were announced Thursday after a coordinated effort by state, local and federal law enforcement agents. Six of people arrested in the case face federal charges
Rhea Chakraborty is a ‘Bengal tigress’, her lawyer Satish Maneshinde said. “She will fight all those idiots. The shameless people who destroyed her image are lining up outside my office for my interview,” he told an Indian daily, referring to a section of people who tarnished her image. The Bollywood
Covert said his client had a gaiter-type face cover that day but, on occasion, walked into the bar while it was around his neck and not pulled up over his mouth and nose. He pulled it up to his face whenever asked by an employee or Sapienza, who swore when
ANNAPOLIS — An update to Maryland’s hate crimes law, named for slain Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III, is one of several anti-discrimination measures that went into effect Oct. 1. Other notable bills address crime, the environment and health care, including an infectious disease mandate named for Olivia Paregol, a
Could “iconic” venues like Antone’s become tax-funded visitor centers? (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
As City Hall continues to rifle through its coffers looking for any and all revenue that can be used to stabilize the music venues, bars, and restaurants that face imminent closure, a familiar argument
The School of Law’s clinical legal education program serves clients who need help the most — and the novel coronavirus has made the need greater than ever. Now the school’s new COVID Response Legal Clinic is working to help people with legal needs arising from the pandemic.
The clinic, co-directed
OU President Joseph Harroz entered an employment agreement with the Board of Regents effective Sept. 1, which was released to the OU Daily on Oct. 7.
Harroz was appointed university president May 9, and his contract was requested by The Daily on May 14. Read more about the details of
Dear Thieves, Facebook has helped Hagerstown police identify you.
The police department has identified two suspects in a recent theft at Ulta thanks to feedback from the public after the agency posted a screenshot from surveillance footage to the social media website with a humorous letter to the alleged thieves.
Opponents say the new law allows contractors to remain in place for life and weakens environmental protections.
Indonesian workers have launched protests in several cities to oppose the passage of a controversial new jobs law that the government says is vital to attract investment but critics view as too pro-business.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is on the defensive as his office continues to receive criticism over the Breonna Taylor case.
Cameron spoke out after Taylor family attorney Ben Crump urged him to recuse himself so a special prosecutor can be appointed to investigate the case.
