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If you are an employer in the private and third-party logistics warehouse industry, you now have a target on your back that was pinned there by a new Department of Labor wage enforcement initiative. What you also need to know is this initiative conveniently…
The Trucking Alliance, a safety coalition of freight transportation and logistics companies, has joined with the Department of Labor in support of its truck driver apprenticeship training program. “The efforts by the Biden administration and by DOL to expand…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is implementing a National Emphasis Program (NEP) intended to protect workers from heat-related injuries and illnesses in both outdoor and indoor workplaces. NEPs are temporary programs that focus OSHA's…
Amazon recently lost its first union election in its long battle to avoid unionization at its Staten Island, NY, distribution facility, seen as a major defeat in its long history of remaining union-free. The company is asserting that unwarranted influence…
Drug usage by Americans in safety sensitive jobs is continuing to rise and expand, probably driven in part by the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic on the nation’s frayed social fabric, and the growing legalization of psychoactive drugs, such as marijuana and…
Earlier this year, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest statistics for union membership and the news was not good for America’s labor unions. In 2021, the number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions continued to decline…
On March 3, President Biden signed a new law that bans the use of pre-dispute arbitration agreements in cases alleging sexual assault or sexual harassment. The reform had been sought since the early days of the #MeToo movement when it was discovered that in…
In January, OSHA announced a 5% increase in the civil penalties assessed for violations of its regulations, but worse may be yet to come if certain legislative reforms are adopted by Congress. As of Jan. 13, the maximum penalty for willful or repeated…
When National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo announced late last year the board’s new policy favoring union organizing of college football and basketball players, she seemed to have gone off the deep end a bit by adopting Orwellian…
An alliance of OSHA and industry groups has revised the official federal safety manual used for managing industrial robot systems. OSHA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and Association for Advancing Automation (called A3, formerly…
The Department of Labor and American Trucking Associations signed an agreement making ATA an official registered sponsor of the federal agency’s new apprenticeship program The signing ceremony was attended by Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, whose…
The Departments of Transportation and Labor announced expanded efforts to improve truck driver training, recruitment and retention. This includes expansion of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s truck driver apprenticeship programs to include…