Law

[New] Uber has already correctly identified workers as independent contractors and will not reclassify them next year despite the new law.
Aside from the aging of the population, CBO expects the effects on labor force participation of other demographic trends, economic trends, and fiscal policies under current law to largely offset one another over the coming decades.
In CBO's assessment, US domestic economic conditions will return as an important driver of immigration flows by the middle of the coming decade and, under current law, net flows of foreign-born people without legal status will again be positive.
Millions of legal US immigrants could, in consequence, see the terrifying might of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection unleashed against them over the coming years.
Since joining the EU, Poland has seen an exodus of skilled workers, many leaving to work in other EU countries for better job opportunities.
Qatar s Cabinet stated that, further to the 2018 law which permits greater foreign ownership of its real estate sector, it would identify 10 locations eligible for full foreign ownership and 16 that could be held for a period of 99 years.
Solar advocates praised New York's state legislature's adoption of long anticipated legislation that will require at least 70 percent of electric generation come from renewable sources by 2030 and providing needed funding to low-income and environmental justice communities.
Singapore will introduce a new law this year to tackle the issue of foreign interference in politics.
The non-partisan US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that national debt could rise to 144 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2049 under current law.
Zimbabwe will repeal its indigenisation and economic empowerment legislation dealing with ownership of foreign-controlled companies and replace it with a new empowerment law.
While additional regulations had been expected following the introduction of a new cybersecurity law in 2017, Beijing seemingly held them in abeyance while trade talks with the U.S. progressed early this year.
Growth in China is slowing: Zhang Xiaojing of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences predicts the growth of China's gross domestic product slowing to 2 or 3 percent.
The Indian government will introduce a new model tenancy law to boost the fragmented rental housing market and has proposed further tax incentives in line with its continued effort to achieve the 'Housing for All' target by 2022.
Given that the UK has made media freedom its major focus for 2019, one way it could take a lead is dealing with the big UK law firms who are helping the rich and powerful to stifle investigative journalism.
An upcoming Senate bill is the Trump administration's best hope for a significant achievement before next year's election to lower prescription drug prices, but a lot still needs to go right for anything to become law.
The UK Ministry of Justice will reveal plans for the second part of an overhaul of personal injury claims by the end of the year, it has been confirmed.
Runet, the Russian segment of the internet, is about to be isolated from the rest of the web: A new law adopted by the State Duma aims to do so in order to supposedly protect it from external threats and turn it into a sovereign space.
The Green Finance Strategy and the development of sustainable finance standards will help to deliver the significant changes needed across the whole economy to deliver the climate change target and establish the UK as the global leader in sustainable finance.
Facebook will not be handing over ID data for hate speech cases in the U.S. - the First Amendment provides strong free speech protections and hate speech has no legal definition under U.S. law.
One of the more obvious changes from the UK leaving the EU will be the inability of citizens to ask the UK courts to send questions to the EU courts to clarify questions of EU law in order to obtain redress, either against government or business.
If EU courts were to find the two-tier approach unlawful, a practical implication is that it could provide the basis for a broad ruling prohibiting transfer of personal data to the U.S.
Bahrain will issue a new law to organize the business of SMEs this year.

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Last updated: 17 September 2019