Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Regulators Escalate Focus on the Risks of Bank Relationships with Fintechs and Other Third Parties
DE Under 3: OFCCP Resurrects Proposal for Monthly CC-257 Employment Utilization Reports for Construction Contractors
DE Under 3: Updated EEOC COVID-19 Technical Assistance Guidance, Case Decision & Wage & Hour Division Proposed Rule
Digital Assets Regulation Framework: Commerce Solicits Public Comment
DE Under 3: EEOC & DOJ Technical Guidance for Employer’s AI Use; Upcoming EEOC Hearing; Event for Mental Health in the Workplace
Comment Deadline Approaching: Proposed Amendments Restricting Use of Prop 65 Short-Form Warnings
2BInformed: The Future of Fluoride in Drinking Water, the New TSCA Fees Rule, and the Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 5
Recent Actions on Ag Biotech by EPA’s Emerging Technologies Branch
III-44- A Little Help From The DOL
[WEBINAR] Laying the Foundation for Maximizing Benefits Around Emerging Technologies
[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?
Episode 014: Business Divorce Stories: Business Appraiser Tony Cotrupe and Attorney Jeff Eilender
OSHA held its public rulemaking hearing on the proposed Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings standard from June 16 through July 2, 2025. Below is a summary of the hearing and a brief...more
Federal safety officials have just made good on one of their promises by issuing a proposed rule that would give a designated union representative the right to accompany an OSHA inspector during a facility walkaround —...more
On Nov. 2, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking to strengthen protections for unions in the election process. Among other things, the proposal would alter the rules...more
On November 4, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) seeking to rescind the “election protection” rule published on April 1, 2020, and to restore the prior protocols,...more
In 2020, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Republican-appointed majority adopted regulations dealing with the effect of allegations of coercive conduct on pending union elections. Those rules removed the so-called...more
On November 3, 2022 the National Labor Relations Board issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that, if adopted, would rescind a rule issued under the prior administration addressing blocking charges, voluntary...more
In March of 2020, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “the Board”) finalized a rule that substantially overhauled certain parts of NLRB election procedures thereby providing additional protections to the rights of...more
The National Labor Relations Board just took the first step towards scrapping Trump-era rules that had made it easier for workers to undo union representation, the next pro-labor move from an increasingly active federal...more
On September 6, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the standard for determining joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). ...more
Federal wage and hour officials recently issued proposed rules that will make it easier for unions to have their hourly rates of pay established as the prevailing wage rates and will increase the Department of Labor’s...more
On September 23, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that addresses the long-standing issue of whether undergraduate and graduate students who perform services for...more
On September 20, 2019 the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) proposed a rule which, if approved, would exclude graduate and undergraduate student workers, who perform services in connection with their studies,...more
The seemingly never-ending debate over private sector college- and university-student employment status continues. On Friday, September 20, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced its intent to propose a rule...more
In the latest volley across the partisan line in the saga of whether college teaching and research assistants can unionize, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a proposed rule that would deny the ability to...more
The National Labor Relations Board took the latest step in the long-simmering debate over whether college teaching and research assistants could unionize when it released a proposed rule on Friday that would once again block...more
In an effort to resolve a hotly debated legal issue spanning decades for private college and university employers, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently released a proposed rule that would effectively block...more
On September 20, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (Board) issued a proposed rule that would exclude from the National Labor Relations Act (Act) undergraduate and graduate students at private colleges and universities...more
As anticipated, today the National Labor Relations Board published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) proposing a regulation which would establish that students at private colleges and universities who perform any...more
The U.S. Department of Labor just became the latest federal agency to propose a rule to limit the scope of joint employment liability, this time for wage and hour matters. If the rule released earlier yesterday is adopted in...more
The National Mediation Board's proposed rule would create a direct decertification procedure, eliminating its current, convoluted "straw man" decertification procedure. On January 31, 2019, the National Mediation Board...more