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Date: 2 Jun 2023 17:10:15 -0400
From: "The Telecom Digest" <digest-replies@telecomdigest.net>
Subject: Maryland's New Telemarketing Law
by David O. Klein
On May 3, 2023, Maryland Governor, Wes Moore, signed SB 90 into
law. In enacting the Stop the Spam Calls Act of 2023 ("mini-TCPA"),
Maryland is the latest state to enact its own mini–Telephone Consumer
Protection Act ("TCPA") statute. Maryland's telemarketing law is set
to take effect on January 1, 2024.
While Florida, Oklahoma, and Washington state telemarketing laws
contain similarities, they are also slightly different from one
another and the TCPA.
https://www.mondaq.com/article/news/1322090?q=1803232&n=806&tp=8&tlk=11&lk=61
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Date: 3 Jun 2023 11:53:43 -0400
From: "Bill Horne" <digest-replies@telecomdigest.net>
Subject: CWA Call Center Workers Protest Illegal Layoffs
June 1, 2023
Workers who are organizing with CWA at Maximus traveled to Washington,
D.C., last week to urge Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier
Beccera to investigate labor practices at Maximus, protect workers from
unfair and unnecessary layoffs, and raise wages for contracted workers
to $25 per hour. Maximus, the federal government’s largest call center
contractor, provides services to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
At the rally, workers described poor working conditions, including low
pay, unaffordable health care benefits, and few paths to promotion,
especially for Black and Latinx women. Daija Arrington, a Maximus CDC
call center worker, said that despite an excellent performance record,
she was laid off just before Mother’s Day. “I believe the real reason I
was laid off was in retaliation for speaking out about Maximus’s working
conditions, and to scare my coworkers from supporting a union. But we
have a right to speak out and tell the truth, and to organize to improve
our working conditions. That’s why we’re calling on HHS to hold Maximus
accountable for mistreating workers, help us keep our jobs, and make
sure we’re paid the fair wages we deserve.”
https://cwa-union.org/news/cwa-call-center-workers-protest-illegal-layoffs
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