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Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
Showing 992 posts in Warehouse and Logistics Newsletter.
Nearly a third of all workers in the United States receive no training at all from their employers, according to a recent study. Making matters worse for an industry that is trying to reinvent itself as a high-service, experience-based alternative to…
New legislation is intended to tackle the truck driver shortage through apprentice training programs. Called the Developing Responsible Individuals for a Vibrant Economy (DRIVE-Safe Act), it was introduced March 21 by Rep. Duncan D. Hunter Jr. (R-CA), a…
The American Transportation Research Institute issued its annual list of the most congested bottlenecks in America for freight haulers. For the third straight year, Atlanta’s “Spaghetti Junction” – the intersection of Interstates 285 and 85 North -- is the…
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…
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 across drought-stricken…
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…
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 report on whether…
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…
Blog
Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
Showing 992 posts in Warehouse and Logistics Newsletter.
Nearly a third of all workers in the United States receive no training at all from their employers, according to a recent study. Making matters worse for an industry that is trying to reinvent itself as a high-service, experience-based alternative to…
New legislation is intended to tackle the truck driver shortage through apprentice training programs. Called the Developing Responsible Individuals for a Vibrant Economy (DRIVE-Safe Act), it was introduced March 21 by Rep. Duncan D. Hunter Jr. (R-CA), a…
The American Transportation Research Institute issued its annual list of the most congested bottlenecks in America for freight haulers. For the third straight year, Atlanta’s “Spaghetti Junction” – the intersection of Interstates 285 and 85 North -- is the…
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…
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 across drought-stricken…
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…
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 report on whether…
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…