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A new heavy-duty truck engine rule is getting mixed reactions from truckers with, some contending it will have the opposite of the intended effect of getting older trucks off the road. The Environmental Protection Agency called the final rule “the…
It’s too soon to say whether the Federal Reserve Board’s efforts to reduce inflation will lead to a recession, but continuing interest rate hikes increase the chances, National Retail Federation Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz said on Jan. 3. “This year…
The National Labor Relations Board is advancing its campaign to define student athletes as university employees who can be organized by unions. In mid-December, the NLRB’s Los Angeles regional office supported the filing of unfair labor practice charge…
A survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management found that more than one in five workers witnessed increased anxiety and stress among their fellow employees leading up to last year’s Election Day. The SHRM Research Institute poll revealed…
A new law called the Speak Out Act prohibits employers from using nondisclosure and nondisparagement agreements to block the victims of sexual harassment and assault from making their stories public Employers should remain aware that some state or local laws…
The Department of Labor has chosen to wade into the ESG controversy by stating that pension plan trustees can consider Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria when making their investment decisions. By doing so, DOL has chosen\ to take sides in…
The Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service updated a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for working together to battle employment misclassifications. The agreement follows the pattern of other federal agencies working together to target…
Download a copy of ACWI Advance here: In this issue of ACWI Advance, we take a closer look at these stories: The nation’s railroads feel the heat for service embargoes and staff shortages. The return rate for retail purchases was flat in 2022, but fraud was…
After five long years of the nation’s freight railroads exploiting its customers and damaging the economy in adherence to a totally unreasonable operations model designed only to enrich its shareholders, the nation appears to have finally woken up to just…
As retail sales continued to grow, the average rate of returned purchases remained flat at 16.5% in 2022 compared with 16.6% in 2021. This was reported by the National Retail Federation in conjunction with Appriss Retail, a retail returns consultant and…
Powered Industrial Trucks (forklifts) are the focus of a new Regional Emphasis Program (REP) that was announced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The new program covers Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota – which are the…
Commercial real estate services leader Cushman & Wakefield has embraced creating net-zero buildings by retrofitting existing property to be energy efficient can help reduce carbon emissions. “Not only is decarbonizing existing real estate essential to…