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Enough! State Attorneys General URGE Facebook to Scrap Instagram for Kids
Alaska, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming | May 17, 2021
The National Association of Attorneys General had to urge Facebook to drop a potentially “harmful” project targeted at kids. Apparently, Facebook needs to be encouraged to protect children online.
Attorneys general from 44 states and territories sent a letter to Facebook Chief Executive Officer and founder Mark Zuckerberg. The Attorneys General urged Zuckerberg to scrap plans to develop an Instagram platform for children under the age of 13. Facebook is the parent company of Instagram. ..
(Excerpts from MRC News)
Virginia | May 4, 2021
Small Businesses Say Big Labor’s PRO Act Would Put Them Under
Virginia | May 4, 2021
The Biden Administration sent some stock prices tumbling and left small businesses worried after taking sides on a hotly contested labor issue that critics say could threaten the jobs of millions of independent workers and thousands of small businesses.
In his address to the nation Wednesday evening, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass legislation that would ban the use of freelance workers in most instances.
A report from the freelance site UpWork found that about 59 million gig workers make up $1.2 trillion of the U.S. economy.
“So that’s why I am calling on Congress to pass Protect the Right to Organize Act, the PRO Act, and send it to my desk, so we can support the right to unionize,” Biden said in his address.
The legislation would mean that everything from driving for a ride-sharing app to helping a business run their social media accounts to much of the accounting, IT or other consultant work done by independent workers today could no longer be legal in many cases.
The legislation in question says that, “an individual performing any service shall be considered an employee … and not an independent contractor” except for a few conditions. Those conditions include that “the service is performed outside the usual course of the business of the employer” and that “the individual is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession, or business of the same nature as that involved in the service performed.”..
(Excerpts from The Virginia Star)