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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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On March 6, 2018, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce submitted comments to the Department of Labor in response to the proposed rule under Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) that would broaden the criteria under ERISA section 3(5) for determining when employers may join together in an employer group or association that is treated as the “employer” sponsor of a single multiple-employer “employee welfare benefit plan” and “group health plan” as those terms are defined in Title I of ERISA (“Proposed Rule”).
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) on February 26 announced that it had vacated its decision in Hy-Brand...
A coalition of businesses and trade associations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, on February 15 delivered a letter to the entire...
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After several months of relative inactivity, the union front group Fight for $15 reemerged on February 12...