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The Department of Labor’s new overtime regulation raises the salary threshold, which will harm small businesses and charitable nonprofits.
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As this blog reported not long ago, there’s a new sheriff—which is to say, general counsel—at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and as expected, she is reviving a variety of policy issues left over from the Obama administration (if not before). Although not necessarily of substantial interest to the business community, a recent memorandum from her office reinvigorates a controversial issue put to the wayside under the Trump-era Board.
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Chamber Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer Neil Bradley issued the following statement today following the release of the September Jobs Report:
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The desire to dismantle systems which assist in human trafficking is shared across industries. This is how some industries making a difference.
Read our comments to the Internal Revenue Service on Permanent Relief for Remote Witnessing Procedures.
This Hill letter was sent to Members of the House of Representatives supporting H.R. 3110, the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commercial Construction Index (CCI) is a quarterly economic index designed to gauge the outlook for, and resulting confidence in, the commercial construction industry.
With a new Democratic majority in place, observers of labor policy generally expect the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to adopt an aggressive stance when it comes to enforcing the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
These comments were sent to the Department of Labor on the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard on vaccine and testing requirements.
The week of September 6, House committees began releasing text covering their respective issue areas under the budget reconciliation process. In particular, proposals emerged from the House Ways and Means and the House Education and Labor Committees. Observers of labor policy believe these proposals have, to at least some degree, undergone a “preconference” process with the corresponding Senate committees.