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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.
A recent federal appeals court ruling that job discrimination against Gays violates federal civil rights law lays the legal groundwork for a review of the issue by the Supreme Court. The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals handed down the ruling on April…
Sales of residential furniture remained stable throughout 2016 and are hoped to improve this year – if the economy continues to strengthen and consumers can shake off their post-recession jitters. “With housing, the stock market, inflation, employment and…
For the foreseeable future the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will continue its hardline approach to employer enforcement. Or will it? OSHA is part of the Department of Labor, which as of this writing was on the verge of finally getting a new…
It’s no surprise that unions hate right-to-work laws, so it is also not surprising that their allies on the holdover Obama era National Labor Relations Board are doing everything they can to weaken those laws. About two years ago, Wisconsin became the 25th…
Clifford K. Otto, chief executive officer of Saddle Creek Logistics Services, Lakeland, FL., was elected the 2017-18 Chairman of the International Warehouse Logistics Association. He became Chairman at the 2017 IWLA Convention & Expo in March held in Palm…
Fringe benefits are essential to winning the war to attract and keep talent, according to a recent Society for Human Resource Management survey. “As the war for talent wages on, employers will need not only to ensure that they are strategically utilizing…
New legislation introduced in the Senate aims to prevent the kind of labor slowdowns that crippled West Coast ports in 2014-15, and which resulted in severe damage to the nation’s economy. Called the Prevent Labor Union Slowdowns (or PLUS Act), the bill is…
“Disruption” is too weak a word to describe what ecommerce is doing to American retailing and supply chain management. For some it feels more like an apocalypse. Shopping malls are displaying more gaping holes where stores once stood. Payless ShoeSource,…
The chances that employers could receive a visit from immigration officers have increased, confirms Keith Anderson, an attorney with the law firm of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings. In the state of Mississippi alone Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents…
Sometimes the smallest thing – like a misplaced comma – can cost a company a lot. In one case it is an estimated $10 million. This happened after Oakhurst Dairy in Portland, ME, was sued in 2014 by three of its truck drivers, who accused their employer of…
Should a truck fleet be required to hire a driver and his service dog? Yes, says the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is suing truckload hauler CRST Inc. over this very issue. One of the country’s largest trucking companies, CRST had declined…
Following last November’s election, 26 states now permit the use of marijuana in some form, ranging from medical marijuana in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, to recreational use in California, Washington and Nevada. What you may not know is some states also…
Blog
Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
A recent federal appeals court ruling that job discrimination against Gays violates federal civil rights law lays the legal groundwork for a review of the issue by the Supreme Court. The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals handed down the ruling on April…
Sales of residential furniture remained stable throughout 2016 and are hoped to improve this year – if the economy continues to strengthen and consumers can shake off their post-recession jitters. “With housing, the stock market, inflation, employment and…
For the foreseeable future the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will continue its hardline approach to employer enforcement. Or will it? OSHA is part of the Department of Labor, which as of this writing was on the verge of finally getting a new…
It’s no surprise that unions hate right-to-work laws, so it is also not surprising that their allies on the holdover Obama era National Labor Relations Board are doing everything they can to weaken those laws. About two years ago, Wisconsin became the 25th…
Clifford K. Otto, chief executive officer of Saddle Creek Logistics Services, Lakeland, FL., was elected the 2017-18 Chairman of the International Warehouse Logistics Association. He became Chairman at the 2017 IWLA Convention & Expo in March held in Palm…
Fringe benefits are essential to winning the war to attract and keep talent, according to a recent Society for Human Resource Management survey. “As the war for talent wages on, employers will need not only to ensure that they are strategically utilizing…
New legislation introduced in the Senate aims to prevent the kind of labor slowdowns that crippled West Coast ports in 2014-15, and which resulted in severe damage to the nation’s economy. Called the Prevent Labor Union Slowdowns (or PLUS Act), the bill is…
“Disruption” is too weak a word to describe what ecommerce is doing to American retailing and supply chain management. For some it feels more like an apocalypse. Shopping malls are displaying more gaping holes where stores once stood. Payless ShoeSource,…
The chances that employers could receive a visit from immigration officers have increased, confirms Keith Anderson, an attorney with the law firm of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings. In the state of Mississippi alone Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents…
Sometimes the smallest thing – like a misplaced comma – can cost a company a lot. In one case it is an estimated $10 million. This happened after Oakhurst Dairy in Portland, ME, was sued in 2014 by three of its truck drivers, who accused their employer of…
Should a truck fleet be required to hire a driver and his service dog? Yes, says the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is suing truckload hauler CRST Inc. over this very issue. One of the country’s largest trucking companies, CRST had declined…
Following last November’s election, 26 states now permit the use of marijuana in some form, ranging from medical marijuana in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, to recreational use in California, Washington and Nevada. What you may not know is some states also…