Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14453556...
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans to remove constraints on employers and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers....
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans to remove constraints on employers and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers....
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
Yay… more bad news from the land of the free.
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks....
Louisiana abortion ban preserved after lawmakers kill bill to call public vote (www.nola.com)
Nearly two years after Louisiana launched one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation, legislators have killed an effort to let voters decide whether to do away with the ban and enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution....
Louisiana abortion ban preserved after lawmakers kill bill to call public vote (www.nola.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13544298...
Jeff Landry signs bills to expand Louisiana death penalty, eliminate parole (www.nola.com)
Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law Tuesday a bill allowing executions by nitrogen gas and electrocution, opening the door for Louisiana to revive capital punishment 14 years after it last used its death chamber.
Jeff Landry signs bills to expand Louisiana death penalty, eliminate parole (www.nola.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12860775...
Teacher's aide accused of sexual abuse pleads to lesser charge in Jefferson Parish (www.nola.com)
A Kenner woman who had been accused of accused of grooming and sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy while working as a teacher’s aide at his Westwego school, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the case, court records show....
On way out, Gov. John Bel Edwards ramps up relief for life prisoners (www.nola.com)
Gov. John Bel Edwards has spent his waning months in office doling out mercy at a pace unseen in decades from a Louisiana governor.
Judge orders federal oversight of Angola, calls inmate medical care 'abhorrent,' 'cruel' (www.nola.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/article_68432364-5bf2-51b0-9dc7…
New Orleans school's teacher assistant booked with child pornography, fired (www.nola.com)
Archdiocese of New Orleans plans sales of vast real estate holdings to pay abuse claims (www.nola.com)
More than three years after filing for bankruptcy protection amid mounting claims of child sex abuse by local clergy, the Archdiocese of New Orleans is preparing to sell off seven properties — including the shuttered Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, the St. Jude Community Center and the Catholic Bookstore Uptown — as a way to...
Terrytown pastor pleads not guilty to molestation, rape of teen boys (www.nola.com)
A pastor and registered sex offender pleaded not guilty Friday to raping and molesting two teenage boys that authorities say he preyed on through the church he operated out of his Terrytown home, according to Jefferson Parish court records....
Louisiana AG hopeful Liz Murrill randomly claims abortion pills may be laced with fentanyl (Spoiler alert: they are not) (www.nola.com)
Voodoo practitioners, preservationists riled by plans for Voodoo Doughnut store in French Quarter (www.nola.com)
Leaders of New Orleans' Voodoo community say they are vexed by a proposed new French Quarter location for a Portland, Oregon-based doughnut chain, which they say not only "bastardizes" the
Former Catholic priest pleads guilty in St. Tammany juvenile molestation (www.nola.com)
Patrick Wattigny, a former Slidell Catholic priest accused in two separate child molestation cases on the north shore, pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon and received five years behind bars....
Fifth wind farm bid makes Louisiana a national leader in near-shore wind energy development (www.nola.com)
Groups file free speech lawsuit against Louisiana’s anti-porn law (www.nola.com)
if you hit a paywall (you shouldn't), here is an archive link: https://archive.ph/mkeT1
Photos: Kitten yoga at Jefferson Parish Library (www.nola.com)
More kitten yoga sessions will take place in June and July at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 West Napoleon Ave. in Metairie....
