On March 23, 2018, the last day before a potential government shutdown, Congress passed and the president is expected to sign a massive $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through fiscal year...more
3/23/2018
/ Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Federal Budget ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
OSHA ,
Preemption ,
Rest and Meal Break ,
Tip-Pooling ,
Wage and Hour
On February 12, 2018, the White House released its fiscal year 2019 (FY 2019) budget plan and sent it to Capitol Hill just a week after signing a two-year budget deal lifting the spending caps for 2018 and reopening the...more
One way to assess an administration's public policy priorities is by examining its annual budget submission to Congress: The higher an administration sets its funding requests for particular federal departments, agencies, and...more
As 2013 comes to a close, it’s time to assess what happened and what didn’t happen in Washington, D.C. during the year in terms of labor and employment law legislation, regulations, and litigation. The short version is that...more
1/2/2014
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Canning v NLRB ,
Continuing Resolution ,
D.R. Horton ,
D.R. Horton v NLRB ,
Discrimination ,
ENDA ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Budget ,
LMRDA ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
OSHA ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Silica
Like Thelma and Louise in the movie of the same name driving their convertible over the cliff, or even more analogous, like a bunch of lemmings blindly following their leaders over the precipice, as a nation we may be headed...more