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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.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a National Labor Relation’s Board decision making it illegal for arbitration clauses in owner-operator agreements that require owner-operators to waive any future participation in class action lawsuits. In 2012 the…
More employers decided to stop On-Call scheduling for their workers after attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia urged 15 national retailers to drop the practice. Led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the state AGs…
More employers are turning to employee recognition programs to answer the challenge of employee retention, a Society for Human Resource Management survey finds. The SHRM survey shows that respondents considered employee retention/turnover to be their top…
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…
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 new President, confirmation of his nominees for…
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…
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.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a National Labor Relation’s Board decision making it illegal for arbitration clauses in owner-operator agreements that require owner-operators to waive any future participation in class action lawsuits. In 2012 the…
More employers decided to stop On-Call scheduling for their workers after attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia urged 15 national retailers to drop the practice. Led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the state AGs…
More employers are turning to employee recognition programs to answer the challenge of employee retention, a Society for Human Resource Management survey finds. The SHRM survey shows that respondents considered employee retention/turnover to be their top…
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…
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 new President, confirmation of his nominees for…
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…