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Feldblum EEOC Reappointment Faces Senate Opposition

December 19, 2017

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Following President Trump's surprise reappointment of Chai Feldblum to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation is urging Senate Republicans to block the liberal workers' advocate's new term, which would run through 2022. Chai Feldblum When Trump a week ago an...

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OSHA Announces Increase in Workplace Fatalities

December 19, 2017

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OSHA reports fatal overdoses related to work have risen 32 percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Census of 2016 Fatal Occupational Injuries reports there were 5,190 workplace fatalities in 2016, a 7-percent increase from 2015. The fatal injury rate also increased from 3.4 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers in 20...

December 18, 2017

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OSHA to Accept Form 300A Electronic Data Through Dec. 31 for 2016

The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will continue accepting 2016 OSHA Form 300A data through the Injury Tracking Application (ITA) until midnight on Dec. 31, 2017. OSHA will not take enforcement action against those employers who submit their reports after the December 15, 2017, deadline but before Dec. 31, 2017, final entry date. Starting Jan. 1, 2018...

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USCIS Begins Implementing Rule to Allow Foreign Entrepreneurs U.S. Entry

December 16, 2017

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it is taking steps to implement the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER), in accordance with a recent court decision. Although the IER was published during the previous administration with an effective date of July 17, 2017, it did not take effect because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a final rule on July 11, 201...

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NLRB Restores Pre-Obama Joint Employer Standard

December 15, 2017

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has turned back the clock on the Obama-era standard of what constitutes a joint employer and now maintains that joint employers must have "direct and immediate" control over employees, a standard that held for decades previously. The case in question is Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors, Ltd. and Brandt Construction Co. Though the Administrative Law Ju...

DOL -- Under Pressure -- Extends Tip Pooling Comment Period

December 13, 2017

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The Department of Labor (DOL) has extended the commentary period on its proposed new tip pooling regulation by 30 days, from Jan. 4 to Feb. 3, 2018. The announcement on Tuesday came after 46 Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives wrote in a letter to Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta that repealing the rule would affect 1.3 million workers, and the 30-day comment period it proposed ...

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With Enrollment Soon Closing, Obamacare Sign-ups Reach 4.7 Million

December 13, 2017

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Friday (Dec. 15) is the end of this year's open enrollment at HealthCare.gov, and the latest tally shows that 4.7 million people have so far signed up for Obamacare health insurance policies. In 2016, a total of 9.2 million enrolled, but that sign-up period stretched into January of this year. Of the 4,678,361 million who had signed up as of Saturday, Dec. 9, 1.4 million were new customers a...

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NLRB Seeks Input on 2014 Representation Election Rule: Keep It or Change It?

December 12, 2017

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Tomorrow, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will publish a Request for Information (RFI) in the Federal Register, asking for public input regarding the board’s 2014 Election Rule, which modified the board’s representation-election procedures located at 29 CFR parts 101 and 102. The board will seek information from interested parties regarding three questions: ...

December 11, 2017

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Head of NLRB Office of Appeals Named

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Peter B. Robb has appointed career NLRB attorney Mark Arbesfeld to be director of the General Counsel’s Office of Appeals. In his new position, Arbesfeld will lead the office that reviews appeals by employers, unions, and individuals who believe their unfair labor practice allegations have been wrongly dismissed by a regional office. Whil...

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HHS Announces Opioid Code-a-Thon Winners

December 9, 2017

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On Dec. 6 and 7, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosted a first-of-its-kind, two-day Code-a-Thon to help turn data into lifesaving solutions to the opioid epidemic. Fifty teams, comprised of three to five members of computer programmers each, public health advocates, and innovators worked for over 24 hours to create data-driven solutions that can have immediate and practical i...

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