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Nearly two years after enacting its first-in-the-nation regulation on COVID-19, Virginia has repealed it. On March 21, 2022, the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry’s Safety and Health Codes Board (DOLI) held a public hearing and voted to revoke the Department’s Permanent COVID-19 Regulation.

Several members of the World Print & Communication Forum (WPCF) warn that the current paper shortages will have severe repercussions in the supply of print products for all economic markets and endangers the rebound of the graphic industry after the pandemic.

The Committee on House Administration (CHA) held a hearing last month to discuss data privacy risks and reforms needed in the public and private sectors. Lawmakers from both parties agree that a uniform national law is needed. But the push has been endlessly bogged down amid disputes over whether a national law should override state measures and whether it should give consumers a right to sue companies over privacy breaches.

Benefits are increasingly important to workers and should be a key part of the strategy in recruiting and retaining employees. The number and type of benefits is limited only by the imagination but providing employees what they most desire – money and time – is a starting point when updating employee benefits.