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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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Working quietly on a number of fronts, federal agencies have been strengthening legal protections for whistleblowers and increasing employer penalties for perceived retaliation against employees who report regulatory violations. The kind that garner the most…
The Obama Administration continued its course of involuntary shock therapy for employers by doubling the salary threshold for workers who qualify for overtime pay. Effective Dec. 1, the minimum salary threshold increases to $913 per week, or $47,476…
A special master appointed by the U.S. Treasury Department rejected the Central States Pension fund rescue plan proposing deep benefit cuts, concluding that it couldn’t prevent the fund from collapsing. Treasury’s Special Master Kenneth Feinberg told…
The Panama Canal expansion may have been mired in delays, but East and Gulf Coast ports have enjoyed healthy growth largely due to the West Coast ports’ labor strife and worsening congestion. That observation is bolstered by the second annual North American…
Paul T. Verst, president of Verst Group Logistics, was named the 2016 recipient of the Jock Menzies Distinguished Service Award presented each year by the International Warehouse Logistics Association. The honor was bestowed last March during the…
In case you thought the National Labor Relations Board might be slowing down a bit on its radical pro-union agenda take a close look at its recent attack on the independent contractor status of port drivers in California. Board members might not forge…
Acting with all deliberate speed – with emphasis on deliberate, not speed – the Surface Transportation Board is moving to implement freight rail reform legislation passed by Congress late last year. Starting April 8 the STB will begin considering major rail…
The proliferation of state and local laws raising minimum wages will boost costs of companies that occupy industrial properties, and labor-intensive ecommerce fulfillment centers are expected to be hit especially hard. That’s according to a report from CBRE…
Starting last January 1 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has changed how it handles information included in position statements filed by employers who are responding to civil rights charges. EEOC now will share a copy of your position statement…
When the new “persuader rule” was issued last week the Department of Labor prominently displayed on its website a picture of a hand pulling back a curtain to illustrate the new requirement. The reference is to the scene in the movie version of the Wizard of…
The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has held that a temporary employee can bring a race discrimination claim against his host company as well as the staffing agency that served as his prime employer. In this case the staffing agency sent the plaintiff…
Starting in January a new layer of complexity will be added to payroll management for contractors and subcontractors of the federal government. The U.S. Department of Labor recently proposed a new rule designed to implement a paid sick leave requirement for…
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.
Working quietly on a number of fronts, federal agencies have been strengthening legal protections for whistleblowers and increasing employer penalties for perceived retaliation against employees who report regulatory violations. The kind that garner the most…
The Obama Administration continued its course of involuntary shock therapy for employers by doubling the salary threshold for workers who qualify for overtime pay. Effective Dec. 1, the minimum salary threshold increases to $913 per week, or $47,476…
A special master appointed by the U.S. Treasury Department rejected the Central States Pension fund rescue plan proposing deep benefit cuts, concluding that it couldn’t prevent the fund from collapsing. Treasury’s Special Master Kenneth Feinberg told…
The Panama Canal expansion may have been mired in delays, but East and Gulf Coast ports have enjoyed healthy growth largely due to the West Coast ports’ labor strife and worsening congestion. That observation is bolstered by the second annual North American…
Paul T. Verst, president of Verst Group Logistics, was named the 2016 recipient of the Jock Menzies Distinguished Service Award presented each year by the International Warehouse Logistics Association. The honor was bestowed last March during the…
In case you thought the National Labor Relations Board might be slowing down a bit on its radical pro-union agenda take a close look at its recent attack on the independent contractor status of port drivers in California. Board members might not forge…
Acting with all deliberate speed – with emphasis on deliberate, not speed – the Surface Transportation Board is moving to implement freight rail reform legislation passed by Congress late last year. Starting April 8 the STB will begin considering major rail…
The proliferation of state and local laws raising minimum wages will boost costs of companies that occupy industrial properties, and labor-intensive ecommerce fulfillment centers are expected to be hit especially hard. That’s according to a report from CBRE…
Starting last January 1 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has changed how it handles information included in position statements filed by employers who are responding to civil rights charges. EEOC now will share a copy of your position statement…
When the new “persuader rule” was issued last week the Department of Labor prominently displayed on its website a picture of a hand pulling back a curtain to illustrate the new requirement. The reference is to the scene in the movie version of the Wizard of…
The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has held that a temporary employee can bring a race discrimination claim against his host company as well as the staffing agency that served as his prime employer. In this case the staffing agency sent the plaintiff…
Starting in January a new layer of complexity will be added to payroll management for contractors and subcontractors of the federal government. The U.S. Department of Labor recently proposed a new rule designed to implement a paid sick leave requirement for…