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Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,251 posts going back to 2014.
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Consumers don’t intend to spend their tax refunds on merchandise. Instead, most will choose to bank their refunds and look to reduce debt, according to the annual survey of consumer tax behavior by Prosper Insights & Analytics for the National Retail…
The Department of Labor announced a six-month pilot program designed to allow employers to self-audit and self-report accidental violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Named the Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program, it is intended to…
A federal court has blocked enforcement of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rules restricting criminal background checks of job applicants by employers in Texas. EEOC published the restrictions in 2012, called an “Enforcement Guidance” instead of…
Americans’ voracious appetite for reality-altering drugs like marijuana and opioids is causing even bigger headaches for employers. The spreading reach of state laws legalizing medical and recreational marijuana use create fresh challenges for employers who…
Part of the Prism fleet. ACWI member Prism Logistics and its customer Nami Tea found an ingenious way of working together to help the victims devastated by last fall’s Northern California wildfires. On Oct. 8, 2017, a series of wildfires broke out and swept…
OSHA can reach back as far as it wants into the past to assess repeat violations by an employer, according to a recent court ruling. That was the ruling a federal appeals court which had been asked to rule that there was limit on how far back OSHA could…
William Emanuel The National Labor Relations Board has reversed a ruling it made last December overturning an Obama-era decision on joint employer status. The reversal came after labor union allies in Congress asked NLRB Inspector General David Berry to…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide a case that could bolster or weaken the legal status of independent contractors. It involves the temperature-controlled carrier New Prime Inc., which does business as Prime – its trailers bearing that name are a…
If President Trump gets his way, expect to see budgets slashed at the major federal agencies responsible for regulation employers. The President’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget proposal contains significant cuts in funding for the Department of Labor and the…
President Trump has nominated Patrick J. Fuchs and Michelle A. Schultz to serve as Republican members of the Surface Transportation Board. Patrick Fuchs Michelle Shultz Schultz is associate general counsel for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation…
The new leadership of CSX Transportation intends to slash costs by firing thousands more employees, shedding equipment and rail lines, and ending or severely curtailing spur service. At a March 1 shareholders meeting, President James M. Foote made it clear…
Thanks to the new leadership at the U.S. Department of Labor, it is now much easier for employers to use unpaid interns without running the risk of breaking federal wage laws. The Obama-era Labor Department had adopted standards that virtually wiped out the…
Blog
Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,251 posts going back to 2014.
Showing 989 posts in Warehouse and Logistics Newsletter.
Consumers don’t intend to spend their tax refunds on merchandise. Instead, most will choose to bank their refunds and look to reduce debt, according to the annual survey of consumer tax behavior by Prosper Insights & Analytics for the National Retail…
The Department of Labor announced a six-month pilot program designed to allow employers to self-audit and self-report accidental violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Named the Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program, it is intended to…
A federal court has blocked enforcement of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rules restricting criminal background checks of job applicants by employers in Texas. EEOC published the restrictions in 2012, called an “Enforcement Guidance” instead of…
Americans’ voracious appetite for reality-altering drugs like marijuana and opioids is causing even bigger headaches for employers. The spreading reach of state laws legalizing medical and recreational marijuana use create fresh challenges for employers who…
Part of the Prism fleet. ACWI member Prism Logistics and its customer Nami Tea found an ingenious way of working together to help the victims devastated by last fall’s Northern California wildfires. On Oct. 8, 2017, a series of wildfires broke out and swept…
OSHA can reach back as far as it wants into the past to assess repeat violations by an employer, according to a recent court ruling. That was the ruling a federal appeals court which had been asked to rule that there was limit on how far back OSHA could…
William Emanuel The National Labor Relations Board has reversed a ruling it made last December overturning an Obama-era decision on joint employer status. The reversal came after labor union allies in Congress asked NLRB Inspector General David Berry to…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide a case that could bolster or weaken the legal status of independent contractors. It involves the temperature-controlled carrier New Prime Inc., which does business as Prime – its trailers bearing that name are a…
If President Trump gets his way, expect to see budgets slashed at the major federal agencies responsible for regulation employers. The President’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget proposal contains significant cuts in funding for the Department of Labor and the…
President Trump has nominated Patrick J. Fuchs and Michelle A. Schultz to serve as Republican members of the Surface Transportation Board. Patrick Fuchs Michelle Shultz Schultz is associate general counsel for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation…
The new leadership of CSX Transportation intends to slash costs by firing thousands more employees, shedding equipment and rail lines, and ending or severely curtailing spur service. At a March 1 shareholders meeting, President James M. Foote made it clear…
Thanks to the new leadership at the U.S. Department of Labor, it is now much easier for employers to use unpaid interns without running the risk of breaking federal wage laws. The Obama-era Labor Department had adopted standards that virtually wiped out the…