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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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The economy appears to be running counter to some economists’ forecasts last year for a downturn in the second half of 2017, and that strength is fueling boom town-like growth for industrial real estate. This is the conclusion drawn by Prologis from its…
Now that the Great Recession is behind us, logistics and freight transportation are facing the challenge of finding the qualified people they need to keep the supply chain flowing. “Leading companies understand that their supply chains – and the people who…
A bill introduced in the House of Representatives would narrow the definition of who is a joint employer, and is intended to end Obama-era policies regarding labor and wage laws. Although other labor law reform measures have been introduced, and some…
With Trump nominations to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission stalled in the Senate, the agency continues to push its agenda in new ways. In late July the EEOC sued a Houston employer for requiring job applicants to be of Hispanic national origin and…
Union advocates have long held the settled opinion that independent contractors are really misclassified employees, taking work that should be done by union members. Apparently, that objection also extends to four-legged contractors. Over the past two…
The nation’s labor unions are reacting to shrinking overall membership by attempting to organize smaller employers. In 2016, public sector and private industry union membership declined by nearly 120,000 members, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor…
The National Labor Relations Board has a new Republican member. At the same time, their chairman announced he is leaving at the end of the year. In another development, a federal court fired off a stinging rebuke of the previous Obama-era NLRB for going so…
E. Hunter Harrison CSX Transportation CEO Hunter Harrison publicly lashed out at his own customers at the same time the Surface Transportation Board was dealing with his failure to respond to its demands for accountability for the railroad’s service…
The Trump Administration recently released a list of 800 federal regulations that it is in the process of reforming or removing from the government rulebooks. You have read about some of these initiatives in the pages of ACWI Advance. The President made…
When it comes to how employers should gather 2016 data on its workforce to be included in the annually required EEO-1 reports, to quote former King of Siam, it’s a puzzlement. The new form was adopted by the Obama era Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…
ACWI member Columbian Logistics Network hosted Michigan Transportation Planning Association Conference attendees for a tour of its warehouse facility in Grand Rapids, MI. The visitors were drawn from the Michigan Department of Transportation, Grand Valley…
The Department of Labor wants to hear from you about what salary level would be appropriate for demarcating the border between employees eligible for overtime pay and those who should be exempt. The DOL Wage and Hour Division made its request for public…
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.
The economy appears to be running counter to some economists’ forecasts last year for a downturn in the second half of 2017, and that strength is fueling boom town-like growth for industrial real estate. This is the conclusion drawn by Prologis from its…
Now that the Great Recession is behind us, logistics and freight transportation are facing the challenge of finding the qualified people they need to keep the supply chain flowing. “Leading companies understand that their supply chains – and the people who…
A bill introduced in the House of Representatives would narrow the definition of who is a joint employer, and is intended to end Obama-era policies regarding labor and wage laws. Although other labor law reform measures have been introduced, and some…
With Trump nominations to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission stalled in the Senate, the agency continues to push its agenda in new ways. In late July the EEOC sued a Houston employer for requiring job applicants to be of Hispanic national origin and…
Union advocates have long held the settled opinion that independent contractors are really misclassified employees, taking work that should be done by union members. Apparently, that objection also extends to four-legged contractors. Over the past two…
The nation’s labor unions are reacting to shrinking overall membership by attempting to organize smaller employers. In 2016, public sector and private industry union membership declined by nearly 120,000 members, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor…
The National Labor Relations Board has a new Republican member. At the same time, their chairman announced he is leaving at the end of the year. In another development, a federal court fired off a stinging rebuke of the previous Obama-era NLRB for going so…
E. Hunter Harrison CSX Transportation CEO Hunter Harrison publicly lashed out at his own customers at the same time the Surface Transportation Board was dealing with his failure to respond to its demands for accountability for the railroad’s service…
The Trump Administration recently released a list of 800 federal regulations that it is in the process of reforming or removing from the government rulebooks. You have read about some of these initiatives in the pages of ACWI Advance. The President made…
When it comes to how employers should gather 2016 data on its workforce to be included in the annually required EEO-1 reports, to quote former King of Siam, it’s a puzzlement. The new form was adopted by the Obama era Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…
ACWI member Columbian Logistics Network hosted Michigan Transportation Planning Association Conference attendees for a tour of its warehouse facility in Grand Rapids, MI. The visitors were drawn from the Michigan Department of Transportation, Grand Valley…
The Department of Labor wants to hear from you about what salary level would be appropriate for demarcating the border between employees eligible for overtime pay and those who should be exempt. The DOL Wage and Hour Division made its request for public…