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Google to block local news in Canada in response to media law
Google to block local news in Canada in response to media law
by  AFP

Google on Thursday became the latest Silicon Valley giant to block Canadian users from seeing local news on its platform after Ottawa passed a bill requiring tech companies to pay for such content. Tech giant Meta announced last Thursday that it too would block Canadian news on Facebook and Instagram.

US high court sets new rule for firms requiring work on religious holidays
US high court sets new rule for firms requiring work on religious holidays
by  AFP

The US Supreme Court set a tougher standard Thursday for companies to be able to claim "undue hardship" when requiring employees to work on religious holidays. Instead, the issue was how "undue hardship" was defined -- how much difficulty a business would have to incur to justify forcing a worker to work on a religious holiday.

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