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Rail Shippers Seek Help From Trump

More than 50 top executives whose companies are rail shippers wrote last month to the incoming Trump administration offering to work with it to ensure that rail regulation is fair and reasonable. Most of the executives’ companies are members of the Rail…

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NLRB Continues Aggressive Agenda

We may very well be on the eve of a sea-change in federal regulation under President Trump’s new administration, especially in regard to the National Labor Relations Board’s aggressively pro-union decision making. Don’t expect a lot of changes overnight,…

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Stronger Economic Growth Foreseen

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…

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DOL Expands Its Contractor Website

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,…

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House Votes Ban Of Midnight Rules

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…

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Rail Shippers Seek Help From Trump

More than 50 top executives whose companies are rail shippers wrote last month to the incoming Trump administration offering to work with it to ensure that rail regulation is fair and reasonable. Most of the executives’ companies are members of the Rail…

3 min

NLRB Continues Aggressive Agenda

We may very well be on the eve of a sea-change in federal regulation under President Trump’s new administration, especially in regard to the National Labor Relations Board’s aggressively pro-union decision making. Don’t expect a lot of changes overnight,…

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Marijuana Gives Employers Headaches

On Nov. 8 when the nation went to the polls to elect a new president, voters in several states also voted on marijuana initiatives that have implications for employers operating in those jurisdictions. “As this area of law is developing quickly, and since…