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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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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a new “walk-around” regulation that will result in OSHA-sanctioned trespassing.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Chamber of Commerce released the following statement today regarding the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final regulation adjusting the overtime salary threshold to just over $35,500 a year.
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This Hill letter was sent to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions supporting Eugene Scalia to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor.
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