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But Rauner cited ost in severely limiting overtime pay this year after a federal rule qualified the workers for time-and-a-half overtime pay. Advocates say meant that disabled people had to find newcomers to finish up a few hours each week people who are unfamiliar to the clients and hard to find for minimal hours. The bill is SB261. In another matter, nearly three dozen Illinois legislators of both political stripes are asking Gov. Bruce Rauner to resume contract negotiations with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest public-employee union.

Decatur Democratic Rep. Sue Scherer said, happens if not at the A state labor board agreed with Rauner last month that talks were at That means the governor can impose his terms. Lawmakers OK overtime for home care workers CHICAGO (AP) A rare full- court session of a U.S. appeals court in Chicago heard arguments Wednesday on whether protections under a 1964 Civil Rights Act should be expanded to cover workplace discrimination against LGBT employees, as hopes dim among some gay rights activists that the question will be resolved in their favor following Republican election victories. Several of the 11 judges at the 7th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals signaled they are ready to enter what would be a historic ruling broadening the scope the 52-year- old landmark law, with the court directing the toughest questions during the hourlong hearing at a lawyer who argued only Congress could extend the protections. Judge Richard Posner repeatedly interrupted the lawyer representing an Indiana community college that was sued by a lesbian for alleged discrimination and at one point asked: will be hurt if gays and lesbians have a little more job When attorney John Maley said he think of anyone who would be harmed, Posner shot back, the big Even if the 7th Circuit becomes the first U.S. appellate court to rule that the law covers sex-orientation bias, legal experts say the issue is likely to land before the Supreme Court. Chances of a majority of justices agreeing that workplace protections should include LGBT workers will be slimmer if President-elect Donald Trump fills a high court vacancy with a social conservative. A GOP-majority House and Senate also makes it unlikely the next Congress will amend the statute, said Chicago-based labor lawyer Barry Hartstein.

count on Congress or the said Hartstein, who wants the act to cover LGBT workers. President Barack administration has taken the position that the law already prohibits discrimination of LGBT workers. It has criticized courts for a reluctance to reach the same conclusion. The 7th Circuit decided in October to rehear the case of teacher Kimberly Hively, who claimed Ivy Tech Community College hire her full time because she is a lesbian. The full court vacated the July finding by three of its own judges that the civil rights law cover sexual-orientation bias.

A new ruling is expected within several weeks. hearing focused on the meaning of the word in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the provision that bans workplace bias based on race, religion, national origin or sex. Multiple court rulings back contention that Congress meant for the word to refer only to whether a worker was male or female. Given that, he said it would be wrong to stretch the meaning of in the statute to also include sexual orientation. U.S.

court hears LGBT case NEW YORK (AP) President-elect Donald Trump declared Wednesday he will leave his business empire behind to focus on his presidency. But the prospect that he could simply shift more control to three of his adult children looked too cozy to some business-ethics specialists who suggest the arrangement could bring unprecedented conflicts of interest into the Oval Office. Trump announced in a series of early morning tweets that he would leave his adding: I am not mandated to do this under the law, I feel it is visually important, as president, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various Trump provided no details, though he said legal documents were being prepared. He previously had said leave his business operations to his three eldest children Donald Eric and Ivanka. Asked if the tweets indicated plans to move the businesses to the children, Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said Wednesday, appears that three adult children who do already work in the corporation are expected to continue in those roles and in fact increase their responsibilities in those Conway said.

Ethics experts have pushed for Trump to fully exit the ownership of his businesses using a blind trust or equivalent arrangement. he will have a personal financial interest in his businesses that will sometimes conflict with the public interest and constantly raise Norman Eisen, President Barack chief ethics lawyer, and Richard Painter, who held the same post for President George W. Bush, said in a joint statement. The laws are generally loose for presidents regarding their businesses except when it comes to ties to or gifts from foreign governments. All 16 Democratic members of House Judiciary Committee wrote to Chairman Bob Goodlatte, to request hearings to examine conflicts-of-interest and ethics provisions that may apply to Trump.

Trump spent much of Wednesday conducting meetings in his Manhattan high-rise. His pick for secretary of state remains up in the air, though aides say he has narrowed his choices to four. One contender, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney dined with him Tuesday. Trump has moved forward with other Cabinet selections, choosing former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary and billionaire investor Wilbur Ross for Commerce.

Mnuchin, 53, led finance operations during the presidential campaign, but he has no government experience. If confirmed by the Senate, he would play a central role in shaping tax policies and infrastructure plans. He would also lead an agency tasked with implementing international economic sanctions. Mnuchin would follow in the tradition of two previous Treasury secretaries who worked at the Goldman Sachs investment firm. During the campaign, Trump repeatedly criticized Hillary ties to Wall Street banks and hit her for paid speeches at Goldman Sachs.

Arriving at Trump Tower Wednesday, Mnuchin said the administration planned mo st significant middle income tax cut since He also called for lowering corporate taxes to encourage companies to stay in the United States. Meanwhile, Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence, the outgoing Indiana go vernor, planned an event Thursday in Indiana in connection with an announcement that the air conditioning giant Carrier Corp. planned to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in the state instead of moving them to Mexico. Details of the agreement were unclear. Trump spent much of his campaign pledging to keep companies like Carrier from moving jobs out of the U.S., but he also dismissed tax incentives and favorable financing deals often used by state officials to keep major employers home.

Nationally, manufacturers shed 10,000 jobs in November, according to a report Wednesday by payroll services provider ADP. U.S. manufacturing firms have struggled as a stronger dollar has cut into exports and U.S. businesses have spent less on machinery and other equipment. They have cut 53,000 jobs in the past 12 months.

Trump says leaving businesses to avoid con icts Wealthy Wall Street veterans named to head Treasury, Commerce ASSOCIATED PRESS erenity rooks, 5, holds a baby doll as she digs for her belongings after a suspected tornado ripped through the town of osalie, a on ednesday BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Tornadoes that dropped out of the night sky killed five people in two states and injured at least a dozen more early Wednesday, adding to a seemingly biblical onslaught of drought, flood and fire plaguing the South. The storms tore through just as firefighters began to get control of wildfires that killed seven and damaged or wiped out more than 700 homes and businesses around the resort town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. In Alabama, the weather system dumped more than 2 inches of rain in areas that had been parched by months of choking drought. At least 13 confirmed twisters damaged homes, splintered barns and toppled trees in parts of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, the National Weather Service said.

Tombstones were even knocked over in the cemetery behind the badly damaged Rosalie Baptist Church, near where three people died in northeastern Alabama. looks like the rapture happened up said church member Steve Hall, referring to the end-times belief of many Christians. we thinking the Lord is trying to get our said the pastor, Roger Little. The National Weather Service was assessing damage from multiple possible tornadoes across the region. At least five hit Alabama, and three more struck southern Tennessee, and one confirmed in Louisiana and at least 4 in Mississippi, forecasters said.

A possible tornado was spotted on the ground Wednesday a few miles from Atlanta, and flights were briefly delayed at the main airport, but no major damage occurred. Three people were killed and one person critically injured in a mobile home after an apparent twister hit tiny Rosalie, about 115 miles northeast of Birmingham, said Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen. A suspected tornado was responsible for the death of a husband and wife in southern Polk County, while an unknown number of others were injured, said Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Dean Flener. No details were immediately available. The Daily Post-Athenian in Athens, Tennessee, reported the Meigs County office said lightning is sus pected as the cause of two deaths in a mobile home fire overnight.

Shirley Knight, whose family owns a small propane business in Rosalie, said the storm crashed in on them in the middle of the night. Daybreak revealed mangled sheets of metal, insulation and a ladder hanging in trees. had a plaza, a service station and several buildings connected together, and all said Knight, adding that the storm also destroyed a church and damaged buildings at a nearby Christmas tree farm. The same storm apparently hit a closed day care center in the community of Ider, injuring seven people, including three children who had left their mobile home to seek shelter, said Anthony Clifton, DeKalb County emergency management director. Alabama Gov.

Robert Bentley issued a state of emergency because of the storms. Meanwhile, thousands of people were without power, including up to 45,000 homes at one point in Alabama. Many schools dismissed early in Alabama and Georgia to avoid having students on the road in buses as storms continued to roll across the region Wednesday. Tornadoes pound South already reeling from drought, flood, fire NATION.