The Beltway Buzz™ is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more
5/12/2025
/ Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Independent Contractors ,
New Legislation ,
OFCCP ,
Over-Time ,
Paid Leave ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Tax Reform ,
Trump Administration
The Beltway Buzz™ is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more
5/5/2025
/ Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
Immigration ,
Immigration Procedures ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Trump Administration
The Beltway Buzz™ is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more
3/31/2025
/ Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Executive Orders ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Legislative Agendas ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
Presidential Nominations ,
Taft-Hartley Act ,
Trump Administration
The Beltway Buzz™ is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more
The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more
1/27/2025
/ Civil Rights Act ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Final Rules ,
Immigration ,
OFCCP ,
Regulatory Freeze ,
Trump Administration
The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more
11/25/2024
/ Collective Bargaining ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Exempt-Employees ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Longshoremen ,
Minimum Salary ,
OFCCP ,
OSHA ,
Over-Time ,
Pending Legislation ,
Ports ,
Proposed Rules ,
Public Procurement Policies ,
Salaried Employees ,
Service Animals ,
Threshold Requirements ,
Unions ,
Vacated ,
White-Collar Exemptions
The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more
7/15/2024
/ Biden Administration ,
Congressional Review Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employment Authorization Documents (EAD) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Heat Exposure ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
OSHA ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Union Elections ,
USCIS
The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more
7/1/2024
/ Affirmative Action ,
Appropriations Bill ,
Compliance ,
Confirmation Proceedings ,
Congressional Intent ,
Davis-Bacon Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Exempt-Employees ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Minimum Salary ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
Prevailing Wages ,
Salaried Employees ,
Senate Confirmation Hearings
The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more
5/13/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Bostock v Clayton County Georgia ,
Compliance ,
Congressional Review Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Enforcement Guidance ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
OSHA ,
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Subcontractors ,
Wage and Hour ,
Warehouses
The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business.
Congress on Spring Break...What’s on...more
4/8/2024
/ Affirmative Action ,
Certification Requirements ,
Federal Budget ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Funding ,
Final Rules ,
H-1B ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
Silica ,
USCIS ,
Visa Caps
The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business. ...more
3/4/2024
/ Construction Industry ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Funding ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Government Shutdown ,
H-1B ,
Immigration Procedures ,
OFCCP ,
OSHA ,
Secretary of the Interior ,
Senate Confirmation Hearings
POTUS Issues Executive Order on AI Framework.
On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” (EO). According to its...more
11/6/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Child Labor ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Government Agencies ,
Memorandum of Understanding ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
OSHA ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Workplace Safety
Su Nomination in Limbo. Late last week, Senator Joe Manchin publicly voiced his opposition to Julie Su’s nomination to be secretary of labor. ...more
West Coast Ports: Parties Reach Agreement. This week, ocean carriers and terminal operators at the twenty-nine West Coast ports in the United States announced a tentative agreement with the labor union that represents their...more
Michigan Repeals Right-to-Work Law. Late last week, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law legislation repealing the state’s right-to-work law, which was enacted in 2012. Right-to-work laws allow for voluntary...more
POTUS Issues First Veto. On March 20, 2023, after more than two years in office, President Biden issued his first legislative veto. As expected, President Biden rejected the bipartisan Congressional Review Act resolution that...more
3/27/2023
/ Administrative Priority ,
Biden Administration ,
Climate Change ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Federal Contractors ,
H-1B ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
Presidential Veto ,
Retirement Plan ,
Scheduling Letters ,
Severance Agreements
Walsh Exits. March 10, 2023, marked Marty Walsh’s last day as U.S. secretary of labor. The duties of the secretary are now being handled by Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su, who is waiting on the U.S. Senate to act on her...more
POTUS Nominates Su to Lead DOL. This week, President Biden nominated Julie Su to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) (the current secretary, Marty Walsh, is scheduled to leave his position later this...more
3/6/2023
/ Biden Administration ,
Child Labor ,
Congressional Review Act ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
EEO-1 ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
FOIA ,
OFCCP ,
Presidential Nominations ,
Wage and Hour
Wilson Leaving FTC. Christine Wilson, the only Republican commissioner serving on the Federal Trade Commission, announced this week that she would be resigning her position. In an opinion piece printed by an internationally...more
Biden’s SOTU, Part II. This week, President Biden delivered his second State of the Union (SOTU) address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress. (Over the years, the Buzz has been quite candid with our feelings about the...more
POTUS Re-ups Labor Nominees. This week, President Biden renominated Jessica Looman to serve as administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division and José Javier Rodriguez to serve as assistant...more
1/30/2023
/ Biden Administration ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Disability ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Fraud ,
GAO ,
OFCCP ,
PBGC ,
Presidential Nominations ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Withdrawal Liability
Union Membership Decreases. The percentage of workers who are union members dropped to 10.1 percent in 2022 from 10.3 percent in 2021, according to data released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In the...more
1/23/2023
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Congressional Committees ,
Deferred Action ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
OSHA ,
Union Elections ,
Unions
Congress and POTUS Act to Avert National Freight Rail Shutdown. The national freight rail dispute that the Buzz had been tracking for months has come to the end of the line. Several holdout labor unions had refused to ratify...more
12/5/2022
/ Biden Administration ,
Federal Contractors ,
Green Cards ,
Immigration Procedures ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
Pending Legislation ,
Railroads ,
Railway Labor Act ,
Railways ,
Strike ,
Supply Chain ,
Trade Unions ,
Unions
Lawmakers Avoid Shutdown, Extend Government Funding Deadline. The U.S. Congress narrowly averted a federal government shutdown this week, as it approved a stopgap continuing resolution to keep the government funded and...more
10/3/2022
/ Affirmative Action ,
Apprenticeships ,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
FAAP ,
Federal Budget ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Funding ,
Fraud ,
Government Shutdown ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
OIG ,
Unemployment Benefits
Railroads Back on Track. After months of negotiating - and a very tense last few days - the national freight railroads have reached tentative agreements with the labor unions representing their employees. The agreements avert...more
9/19/2022
/ Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Federal Contractors ,
FOIA ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Railroads ,
Retirement ,
Strike ,
Trade Unions