Major Democratic governors are breaking with the President and pumping the brakes on mask mandates in their states. With a general public fatigued by COVID-related restrictions, the politics of the issue are evolving. We’ll talk about what this means for operators and other health and safety issues going forward.

And Surprise Surprise. The U.S. Congress can actually agree on something. In an overwhelming bi-partisan vote, both the house and senate this week passed sweeping legislation that would forbid clauses in employment contracts requiring workers to litigate sexual harassment and abuse cases in private, rather than a court. We’ll talk about the impacts of ending mandatory arbitration clauses for sexual harrassmant claims.

And new data from California suggests progressives lost key parts of their political bases when they were trying to push back on Uber and Lyft’s business models. What does that mean for the other states trying to reclassify those drivers as employees and not independent contractors? We’ll discuss it.

We’ll discuss those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.