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Larger employers are revamping the way they conduct background checks on potential employees as a way to fight the tight labor market, Axios reports. 

The Louisiana Legislature is all but certain to have a veto override session starting Wednesday. What Republican leaders don’t know is whether they have enough votes to overturn Gov. John Bel Edwards’ rejection and put their version of Louisiana’s congressional map into place.

Two years after the pandemic began and despite inflation and the war in Ukraine driving prices up, Louisiana’s employment numbers are at their highest since March 2020, with Baton Rouge adding the second most jobs of any Louisiana metro from January to February.

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In the heart of downtown Baton Rouge, the new Blues Café will combine jazz and blues music, Southern cuisine and specialty brunch cocktails when it opens later this spring.

Small businesses that have been buffeted by the pandemic, inflation and shipping woes have another challenge to add to their plate: taxes.

Baton Rouge-based PSC Group has acquired DeQuincy-based Thermoplastics Services Inc., a plastics custom compounding and pelletizing business. 

Former president and CEO of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Scott Wester is in the running to become president and CEO of South Broward Hospital just north of Miami, according to The Chattanoogan. 

Fidelis New Energy LLC announced the addition of three industry veterans to the team that will oversee Fidelis' Grön Fuels plant, a complex planned for the Port of Greater Baton Rouge, Fidelis announced today.

Enhanced federal subsidies have led consumers that otherwise would have gotten health insurance through their employer to seek policies on the individual market instead, says Michael Bertaut, a health care economist with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana.