Among the anti-labor measures big businesses are pushing Congress to pass is a repeal of the National Labor Relations Board’s joint employer standard. In August 2015, the…
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For further proof that our Republican Legislature gives not one darn about real family values, we turn to Monday’s defeat in committee of House Bill 1120, a…
South Dakota Codified Law Chapter 11-11 authorizes the South Dakota Housing Development Authority to make up for the failure of the free market to provide sufficient affordable housing and…
Flaccid tax receipts have not deterred members of the Legislature from seeking to spend more money. Among the measures arising from the Interim study of nursing home and assisted living…
Outgoing Codington County Commissioner Elmer Brinkman reflects on how increasing his local government workforce decreased costs: When Brinkman first started, the commissioners met at 10 a.m. each…
Senator John Thune played David Novstrup on national TV yesterday, pretending that taking things away from workers is good for them. Asked by Fox’s Maria Martiromo…
President Taft signed the Department of Labor into existence on March 4, 1913, Its first Secretary was the founder of the United Mine Workers. The mission…
South Dakota and Minnesota have increased their minimum wages over the last couple of years, but neither has taken the great leap of Seattle, which raised its…
Teachers are full-time employees after all. So says Fifth Circuit Judge Richard A. Sommers in reversing a child support decision. Recall that last summer, child…
An eager reader shares this letter from Avera Health to its thousands of South Dakota employees urging them to vote No on Initiated Measure 23, the “fair…