Front-pack nutrition info sought in US

Sep 08, 2022 23:42 pm UTC| Law Economy Business Health

A White House summit on nutrition and health to be held later this month will consider whether to mandate that nutritional information be made available on the front panel of food and beverage packages. Public health...

Kirin Beverage ordered to ensure correct labeling

Sep 07, 2022 23:42 pm UTC| Law Economy Business Life Health

Japans Consumer Affairs Agency ordered Kirin Beverage to prevent a recurrence of deceptive packaging for its juice product. Although its Tropicana melon taste juice product was labeled as 100 percent melon by Kirin...

California governor signs landmark law boosting benefits for fast food workers

Sep 07, 2022 23:42 pm UTC| Law Economy Business

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a measure giving over a half-million fast food workers more benefits, including a higher minimum wage of $22 per hour despite warnings from restaurant operators that it would drive up...

Ex-Georgia PM blames Credit Suisse unit in Singapore case for $1.27 billion losses

Sep 06, 2022 23:14 pm UTC| Law Economy Business Investing

Ex-Georgia prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili blamed Credit Suisse Trust Ltd in Singapore for failing to take steps to prevent him from losing $1.27 billion. His losses were traced back to Patrice Lescaudron, a former...

US labor agency says it's unlawful for Tesla to prohibit wearing union shirts

Aug 30, 2022 19:06 pm UTC| Law Economy Business Life

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that it was unlawful for Tesla to prohibit employees from wearing shirts bearing a union insignia. In a 3-2 decision on a 2017 dispute between Tesla and the United...

How Québec's Bill 21 could be vanquished by a rarely used Charter provision

Aug 24, 2022 10:59 am UTC| Law

This November, the Québec Court of Appeal will hear an appeal of Hak v. Attorney General of Québec on the constitutionality of Bill 21, which prohibits public service workers from wearing religious...

A new US data privacy bill aims to give you more control over information gathered by websites, social media platforms and all other businesses

Aug 24, 2022 10:56 am UTC| Law

Data privacy in the U.S. is, in many ways, a legal void. While there are limited protections for health and financial data, the cradle of the worlds largest tech companies, like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta (Facebook),...