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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.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission proposed a public guidance aimed at reducing what it perceives as the all-too-common incidence of sexual harassment in the workplace. The commission said that in fiscal year 2015 – the most recent year with data…
President Trump has promised major reductions in government regulations on businesses, but the Occupational Safety & Health Administration could be spared the big knife. Both as a candidate and after he was sworn in as President, Trump declared that he will…
Congress is poised to overturn rules mandating a public “blacklist” of federal contractors who have pending and settled labor charges against them. The rules stemmed from a 2014 Obama executive order mandating changes regarding federal contractors which was…
In spite of eight years of strenuous efforts by labor unions and their allies in federal, state and even local governments, unions’ overall membership continues to erode while they fight furiously to expand their presence in the logistics industry. Only…
The current industrial real estate expansion is one for the record books, according to Cushman & Wakefield. U.S. industrial markets absorbed 63.6 million square feet (MSF) of space 2016’s final quarter, propelling net absorption for the year to a…
A study by IBM and the National Retail Federation found that almost all members of Generation Z -- born between the mid-1990s and early 2000s -- actually prefer to shop in bricks-and-mortar stores. With the global Gen Z population set to reach 2.6 billion by…
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,…
Blog
Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission proposed a public guidance aimed at reducing what it perceives as the all-too-common incidence of sexual harassment in the workplace. The commission said that in fiscal year 2015 – the most recent year with data…
President Trump has promised major reductions in government regulations on businesses, but the Occupational Safety & Health Administration could be spared the big knife. Both as a candidate and after he was sworn in as President, Trump declared that he will…
Congress is poised to overturn rules mandating a public “blacklist” of federal contractors who have pending and settled labor charges against them. The rules stemmed from a 2014 Obama executive order mandating changes regarding federal contractors which was…
In spite of eight years of strenuous efforts by labor unions and their allies in federal, state and even local governments, unions’ overall membership continues to erode while they fight furiously to expand their presence in the logistics industry. Only…
The current industrial real estate expansion is one for the record books, according to Cushman & Wakefield. U.S. industrial markets absorbed 63.6 million square feet (MSF) of space 2016’s final quarter, propelling net absorption for the year to a…
A study by IBM and the National Retail Federation found that almost all members of Generation Z -- born between the mid-1990s and early 2000s -- actually prefer to shop in bricks-and-mortar stores. With the global Gen Z population set to reach 2.6 billion by…
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,…