"About 3,200 Michigan-based workers at Steelcase Inc. learned last week that they must prove by Dec. 8 that they have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
That’s because the Grand Rapids furniture maker, which employs 4,800 total workers in the United States, is a federal contractor that supplies government offices. The workers now face a choice: Get vaccinated, seek an exemption or risk suspension or firings.
So do workers at fellow Michigan furniture makers Haworth and MillerKnoll, which announced they too would enact a vaccine mandate to preserve their sales to the government."
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The growing use of little-known surveillance software that helps law enforcement agencies and corporations watch people's social media and other website activity.
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Michigan Business Tax (MBT) liability can get tricky when trying to figure out the state’s statutory apportionment formula
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Effective October 11, 2021, it is illegal for businesses to manufacture, possess, transfer, inventory, sell, or give away delta-8 THC or THC-O-acetate without proper licensing and approval from the MRA.
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Starting Oct. 1, Michiganders who had their licenses suspended for failure to pay court fines or failure to appear in court for violations can have them reinstated. The new law taking effect is part of Michigan’s criminal justice reform package Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed in January 2021
Read more at Lansing State Journal
Vulnerable adults in Michigan have new protections in place as the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act took effect yesterday, September 26. The statute enacts new requirements on financial institutions to ensure they have training and procedures in-place to better recognize the signs of financial exploitation and take action to protect those who are unable to protect themselves from abuse, neglect, or exploitation because of a mental or physical impairment or because of advanced age.
Read more at Michigan.gov
The enacted legislation addressed four key areas: arrest alternatives, alternatives to jail sentences, community supervision reforms, and responses to traffic violations.
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House Bill 4202 stated cameras could be installed on the stop signs attached to school buses to take pictures of vehicles that pass illegally and allow them to be used by the police.
Read more at WWMT
A woman with 14 tickets has won a major decision in a dispute over whether Saginaw violated the U.S. Constitution by chalking her car tires without a search warrant.
Read more at The Detroit News
To be eligible, they can have only one offense and it cannot have caused another person's death or injury.
Read more at Detroit Free Press
