Employment Policy
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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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The U.S. Chamber works with leaders at the U.S. Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, Congressional committees, and state legislatures to protect opportunities for independent contractors, promote needed immigration reforms to welcome global talent to the American workforce, and preserve every American’s right to work.
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The U.S. Chamber submitted reply comments on the National Labor Relations Board's proposed rulemaking, “The Standard For Determining Joint-Employer Status.”
Economic growth is what allows employers to pay higher wages, not mandates from on high.
The former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, Mark Gaston Pearce, today announced that he was withdrawing his name...
The period for submitting comments to the National Labor Relations Board regarding its proposed joint employer rule closed January 28...
On January 28, 2019, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce submitted comments in response to the National Labor Relations Board's proposed rulemaking, "The Standard for Determining Joint-Employer Status."
During the event, the Chamber unveiled a best practices document for supply chain managers, developed in partnership with the A21 Campaign.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics on January 18 released its annual estimate of union membership in the United States...
Five ways that companies detect and eliminate human trafficking in their operations, in the operations of their business partners, and in their supply chains.
America’s small businesses would have created hundreds of thousands more jobs over the past three years if not for an Obama-era mistake by the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB has an opportunity to correct the error.
Last year was full of accomplishments. 2019 will be no different.