*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management*

*April 25, 2022*

*Title:* NLRB Sues Starbucks for Retaliating Against 3 Workers Involved in Unionizing

*Source:* NPR

*Author:* Joe Hernandez

*Date:* April 24, 2022

*Summary:* One worker was disciplined, suspended and discharged; another was "constructively discharged" and a third was put on unpaid leave after the company revoked "recently granted accommodations," the NLRB said in a press release.

*Link:* https://n.pr/3k7zxjo

*Title:* Rapid Inflation, Lower Employment: How the U.S. Pandemic Response Measures Up

*Source:* The New York Times

*Author:* Jeanna Smialek and Ben Casselman

*Date:* April 25, 2022

*Summary:* The United States spent more on its policy response than other advanced economies. Now economists are revisiting how that worked.

*Link:* https://nyti.ms/38o2SUp

*Title:* Mississippi Set to Become Final State with Equal Pay Law

*Source:* Associated Press

*Author: * Emily Wagster Pettus

*Date:* April 24, 2022

*Summary:* A 1963 federal law requires equal pay for equal work, but Mississippi has the only state without its own law since Alabama enacted one in 2019.

*Link:* https://bit.ly/3vchIGh

*Title:* Cuts to Unemployment Benefits Didn’t Spur Jobs, Report Says

*Source:* CNBC

*Author:* Greg Iacurci

*Date:* April 22, 2022

*Summary:* State cuts to pandemic unemployment benefits last summer had a small impact on hiring, suggesting enhanced funding for the unemployed didn’t play a big role in labor shortages, according to a recent report.

*Link:* https://cnb.cx/3OAKfgl

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