Five Non-Events of 2023

TL/DR - In a retrospective of 2023, Atlantic Council experts discuss five significant events that didn't occur: a U.S. recession, Russia using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, China invading Taiwan, Russia stopping Ukraine from exporting grain, and the U.S. and EU entering a trade war. The article suggests that these non-events had real-world…

NLRB Rules Health Care Firm’s Pay Freeze Illegal

TL/DR - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that a health-care company broke federal labor law by unilaterally stopping nurses’ shift differential pay after agreeing to a collective bargaining agreement with the nurses’ union. The company, Twinbrook OpCo LLC, argued that continuing the shift differential pay would have constituted…

Comply by Jan 1: Mandatory Business Paperwork to Avoid Fines

TL/DR - Starting in 2024, businesses and individuals with substantial control of a company in Arizona will be required to file new identification paperwork to enhance transparency and combat money laundering, as stipulated by the Corporate Transparency Act signed in January 2021. The required information includes owners' full names, birth dates,…