Michigan

State Sen. Erika Geiss's Workplace Employee Boundaries Act would stop employers from requiring access or replies to emails, texts and shift-scheduling messages outside assigned hours. Violations go to the state labor department; carve-outs cover contracted on-call pay, emergencies, and hours you set yourself.

The reversal wasn't legal, it was social: a wave of engineers replied 'this never happens to me,' and a 12k-karma commenter called that the least useful response possible — someone telling you the world works differently is a gift, not noise.

Eight marquee Michigan subsidy deals promised 20,595 jobs for $2.7B in incentives. Actual spend: $1.8B. Actual jobs: 602 — roughly $3 million apiece. Ford's $210M deal has created zero so far; a $261M SanDisk site is 'a big empty field.'

A Xoogler argued the headline cheats: tax abatements aren't 'spending,' since no business means no revenue either way. A VC fired back that this case was actual cash transfers — which makes it worse, not better.