(AP) CALENDAR Today MILITARY RETIREES The Connecticut Senate is organizing a task force to exempt military retirement pay from state income tax.
If finalized, companies will be forced to move exempt employees to nonexempt status, and the change in this status may limit employees' hours and wages.
Casey Martin, a 25-year-old professional golfer afflicted with a circulatory disorder that hinders his ability to walk, has sued the PGA Tour to force it to exempt him from one of professional golf's basic rules.
The oil industry is hoping to persuade enough petroleum Democrats in the legislature to vote "No" on an extension that it can force California to exempt oil from clean energy requirements in exchange for extending the program.
The OFMDPM has also suffered a recent reversal in a high-profile FOI legal battle, eventually being forced to disclose details behind the decision to exempt Roman Catholic schools in Northern Ireland from fair employment legislation.
Addressing concerns about protections for faith-based communities that oppose gay marriage, the bill that advanced Thursday would exempt churches from being forced to perform same-sex wedding ceremonies or host the receptions.
Under the first option, a big credit union would be forced to give up its tax-exempt status, would subject itself to community reinvestment requirements and would agree to tighten regulatory guidelines in accordance with recent Treasury Department recommendations.
President Donald Trump's plan to make Central American asylum-seekers wait in Mexico while their cases move forward contains a fatal flaw, according to half a dozen experts interviewed by HuffPost: The obscure provision of immigration law underlying the plan specifically exempts immigrants from being forced to return to Mexico after applying for asylum.
But as McClatchy noted, "the Obama administration was forced to fulfill the departure timetable when the Iraqi government refused to exempt American troops from Iraqi law".
A: Employees who are exempt from overtime rules can be forced to work extraordinary hours without overtime compensation.
Now the life insurers appear to have convinced the FSA that they should not be forced to adhere to stricter standards just yet, making them the only industry exempt from the new rules.
