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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.
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Legislation that would allow employees to choose paid time off work, or comp time, instead of overtime pay passed the House of Representatives and is pending in the Senate. The measure would allow employers to offer eligible employees the choice of receiving…
Retail sales in May were essentially unchanged on a seasonally adjusted basis after an upwardly revised gain of 0.6%, according to the National Retail Federation. In May, sales were 5.3% above May a year ago on an unadjusted basis, and increased 4% on a…
Total logistics expenditures in the United States actually declined in 2016, but the disruption caused by ecommerce spurred growth in warehousing and parcel shipping. After modest progress in 2015, logistics efficiency posted a sharper improvement last year.…
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission critics got their chance to vent about the agency during a committee May 24 hearing in the House of Representatives. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s…
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled for the first time that the Americans With Disabilities Act covers transgender employees. While transgender status by itself is not considered a condition protected by the ADA, the judge held that employees are…
Employers in Canada’s Ontario province face possible heavy-duty changes in employment law. On May 30, the Ontario government announced its intention to introduce new workplace legislation, which if enacted could prove costly for employers. Among the proposed…
The state of Pennsylvania is considering a new tax on warehousing that has drawn strong opposition from warehouse logistics providers. Gov, Tom Wolf (D) wants a 6% sales and use tax on commercial storage services in what he hopes will help close a $3 billion…
Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta reversed two policies adopted during the Obama administration that employers saw as extreme and unreasonable. Originally adopted as “administrative interpretations” by former Wage and Hour Division Chief David Weil, the…
One of the most controversial rulings by the Obama era National Labor Relations Board appears to be targeted for reversal in the future. News reports say that President Trump is on the verge of nominating two Republicans to still empty seats on the board,…
“Retailers can be assigned to one of three categories: Healthy, lifestyle changes required, or intensive care needed. Unfortunately, there is a fourth category in 2017 – Dead on Arrival – with several formerly robust patients on the way to the morgue.”…
Add warehouse employment to the many other areas of the economy being seriously impacted by the boom in ecommerce retailing. The issue is creating some difficulty for warehouse and fulfillment operations trying to recruit well-trained workers to meet this…
The Obama Department of Labor’s past insistence that independent contractors are nothing more than misclassified employees remains firmly in place five months into the Trump Administration. During the Obama Administration, DOL investigators were specifically…
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.
Legislation that would allow employees to choose paid time off work, or comp time, instead of overtime pay passed the House of Representatives and is pending in the Senate. The measure would allow employers to offer eligible employees the choice of receiving…
Retail sales in May were essentially unchanged on a seasonally adjusted basis after an upwardly revised gain of 0.6%, according to the National Retail Federation. In May, sales were 5.3% above May a year ago on an unadjusted basis, and increased 4% on a…
Total logistics expenditures in the United States actually declined in 2016, but the disruption caused by ecommerce spurred growth in warehousing and parcel shipping. After modest progress in 2015, logistics efficiency posted a sharper improvement last year.…
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission critics got their chance to vent about the agency during a committee May 24 hearing in the House of Representatives. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s…
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled for the first time that the Americans With Disabilities Act covers transgender employees. While transgender status by itself is not considered a condition protected by the ADA, the judge held that employees are…
Employers in Canada’s Ontario province face possible heavy-duty changes in employment law. On May 30, the Ontario government announced its intention to introduce new workplace legislation, which if enacted could prove costly for employers. Among the proposed…
The state of Pennsylvania is considering a new tax on warehousing that has drawn strong opposition from warehouse logistics providers. Gov, Tom Wolf (D) wants a 6% sales and use tax on commercial storage services in what he hopes will help close a $3 billion…
Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta reversed two policies adopted during the Obama administration that employers saw as extreme and unreasonable. Originally adopted as “administrative interpretations” by former Wage and Hour Division Chief David Weil, the…
One of the most controversial rulings by the Obama era National Labor Relations Board appears to be targeted for reversal in the future. News reports say that President Trump is on the verge of nominating two Republicans to still empty seats on the board,…
“Retailers can be assigned to one of three categories: Healthy, lifestyle changes required, or intensive care needed. Unfortunately, there is a fourth category in 2017 – Dead on Arrival – with several formerly robust patients on the way to the morgue.”…
Add warehouse employment to the many other areas of the economy being seriously impacted by the boom in ecommerce retailing. The issue is creating some difficulty for warehouse and fulfillment operations trying to recruit well-trained workers to meet this…
The Obama Department of Labor’s past insistence that independent contractors are nothing more than misclassified employees remains firmly in place five months into the Trump Administration. During the Obama Administration, DOL investigators were specifically…