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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 Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a guidance for employers on how to manage their workplace anti-retaliation programs. The agency said adoption of the guidelines is not mandatory, but adherence to what it calls best practices can help…
College players are employees, NLRB counsel says. The goal of shrinking the regulatory burden on businesses will take longer than Republicans in Congress and President Trump originally thought. With Democrats waging a campaign of massive resistance to the…
Christmas 2016 was more Grinch than Santa for bricks-and-mortar retailers who suffered while consumers flocked to ecommerce sites to meet their shopping needs. Holiday retail sales during November and December increased 4% over 2015 to $658.3 billion,…
Commercial real estate professionals are cautiously optimistic about the future, in part because of how last-mile delivery demands are reshaping the supply chain, according to recent research by Deloitte. Gross domestic product growth will likely increase…
Recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decisions based on promoting employee religious rights have turned corporate dress policies into minefields. In a recent case an employer rejected an applicant because company rules require that employees wear…
The California Supreme Court ruled that almost all employees who are subject to the state’s rest periods regulations cannot be required to participate in on-call or on-duty rest periods. Or, as the court put it: “A rest period, in short, must be a period of…
Columbian Logistics Network donated 12,000 square feet of warehouse space to the Boy Scouts of America for their annual popcorn sales. In addition to the donated storage space, the ACWI member company contributed employee labor and a lift truck to help load…
In a first for the National Labor Relations Board, it filed an unfair labor practices compliant against a company by simply assuming that its drivers are employees and not independent contractors. The complaint was brought by the Chicago-based regional…
If there had been any doubt that we’ve entered a new political era, it was erased by President Donald Trump during his first week in office. Even before all of his cabinet nominations had been approved by the Senate, he led the way in getting off to a quick…
In recent months, economic data and economists’ predictions depicted a steadily strengthening economy, and one of the most bullish of these forecasts is a recent report on manufacturing. The survey of purchasing and supply managers conducted by the Institute…
Just before Christmas the Department of Labor expanded its independent contractors’ website, adding resources from other federal and state agencies regarding employee misclassification. However, there is nothing really new in what was added to the site,…
In advance of the inauguration of President Trump, the new Republican House of Representatives voted to strengthen the ability of Congress to strike down new federal regulations like those imposed by the Obama Administration in its waning days. The House…
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 Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a guidance for employers on how to manage their workplace anti-retaliation programs. The agency said adoption of the guidelines is not mandatory, but adherence to what it calls best practices can help…
College players are employees, NLRB counsel says. The goal of shrinking the regulatory burden on businesses will take longer than Republicans in Congress and President Trump originally thought. With Democrats waging a campaign of massive resistance to the…
Christmas 2016 was more Grinch than Santa for bricks-and-mortar retailers who suffered while consumers flocked to ecommerce sites to meet their shopping needs. Holiday retail sales during November and December increased 4% over 2015 to $658.3 billion,…
Commercial real estate professionals are cautiously optimistic about the future, in part because of how last-mile delivery demands are reshaping the supply chain, according to recent research by Deloitte. Gross domestic product growth will likely increase…
Recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decisions based on promoting employee religious rights have turned corporate dress policies into minefields. In a recent case an employer rejected an applicant because company rules require that employees wear…
The California Supreme Court ruled that almost all employees who are subject to the state’s rest periods regulations cannot be required to participate in on-call or on-duty rest periods. Or, as the court put it: “A rest period, in short, must be a period of…
Columbian Logistics Network donated 12,000 square feet of warehouse space to the Boy Scouts of America for their annual popcorn sales. In addition to the donated storage space, the ACWI member company contributed employee labor and a lift truck to help load…
In a first for the National Labor Relations Board, it filed an unfair labor practices compliant against a company by simply assuming that its drivers are employees and not independent contractors. The complaint was brought by the Chicago-based regional…
If there had been any doubt that we’ve entered a new political era, it was erased by President Donald Trump during his first week in office. Even before all of his cabinet nominations had been approved by the Senate, he led the way in getting off to a quick…
In recent months, economic data and economists’ predictions depicted a steadily strengthening economy, and one of the most bullish of these forecasts is a recent report on manufacturing. The survey of purchasing and supply managers conducted by the Institute…
Just before Christmas the Department of Labor expanded its independent contractors’ website, adding resources from other federal and state agencies regarding employee misclassification. However, there is nothing really new in what was added to the site,…
In advance of the inauguration of President Trump, the new Republican House of Representatives voted to strengthen the ability of Congress to strike down new federal regulations like those imposed by the Obama Administration in its waning days. The House…