It’s spring recess in D.C., and the Senate and House will be off for two weeks. While the recess means lighter traffic, it doesn’t mean that the labor and employment policy machine grinds to a halt....more
4/2/2018
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
OIG ,
Persuader Rules ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour
NLRB Returns to Amorphous Joint-Employer Standard. Talk about policy oscillation: the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) joint-employer recusal debacle continued this week, perhaps coming to an abrupt end (for now). ...more
Between September 26, 2017, when for the first time in nearly a decade Republicans controlled the majority at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and December 16, 2017, when Chairman Philip Miscimarra’s term expired...more
2/6/2018
/ Ambush Election Rules ,
Boeing ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
NLRB General Counsel ,
Opinion Letter ,
State Labor Laws ,
Tip-Pooling ,
Unions ,
Unpaid Interns ,
Wage and Hour
Tax Bill or Health Bill? It’s Two Bills in One! Caught in a legislative black hole, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) cannot escape efforts to eradicate it—or at least large chunks of it. ...more
11/20/2017
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Affordable Care Act ,
Coal Mines ,
DACA ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Dodd-Frank ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Compensation ,
Individual Mandate ,
OMB ,
Presidential Nominations ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Repeal ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Secretary of Labor ,
Tax Reform ,
Trump Administration ,
Unions
2016 Overtime Rules Invalidated. U.S. District Court invalidates 2016 changes to overtime rules. Steven F. Pockrass has the details here....more
9/1/2017
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Beryllium Exposure ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Fiduciary Rule ,
Joint Employers ,
OMB ,
Opinion Letter ,
OSHA ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Persuader Rules ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Unions ,
Volks Rule ,
Wage and Hour