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Beltway Buzz - February 2024 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/12/2024

Long-Awaited Border Deal Arrives With a Thud. A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. Senate this week debuted the text of their long-awaited legislative package addressing the crisis at the United States’ southern...more

Cannabis Legal Report – October 2023

Perkins Coie on 10/4/2023

State Cannabis Regulators Urge Congress to Act on Hemp - The Cannabis Regulators Association (CANNRA) issued an open letter on September 15, 2023, calling on Congress to enact regulations that address safety concerns for...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - June 2023

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/29/2023

Aaaaaand we're back! As we did around the same time last year, we would like the thank the readers for y’all’s patience during our summer hiatus to allow our authors to take a short break to get some Vitamin D and replenish....more

Labor Law Today—2022 Year in Review

Perkins Coie on 2/15/2023

2022 Proposed Rules and Legislation - Joint Employer Status: Proposed Rulemaking - On September 6, 2022, the Board released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to establish a new “joint employer” legal standard under the...more

BREAKING: Senate Committee Proposes Bill to Add Civil Penalties to NLRA

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 12/13/2021

As we have discussed previously, Congressional Democrats have been attempting to amend the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) for the last few years. ...more

Beltway Buzz - October 2021 #4

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/25/2021

Congress: Lather. Rinse. Repeat. After scuttling plans last month to vote on both a $1.2 trillion bipartisan “hard infrastructure” bill that the U.S. Senate approved, 69–30, on August 10, 2021, and a proposed $3.5 trillion...more

Beltway Buzz - September 2021 #3

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/20/2021

Congressional Update - Various committees in the U.S. House of Representatives continued to work this week on their respective portions of the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” reconciliation bill-proposed...more

Not All Fun and Games? College Athletes May Soon Drive a Hard Bargain With Union Support

CDF Labor Law LLP on 6/8/2021

On May 27, 2021, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) introduced the College Athlete Right to Organize Act seeking to provide collective bargaining rights for college athletes. ...more

[Webinar] The Biden Labor Platform: The First 100 Days and More - May 4th, 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm CST

McDermott Will & Emery on 4/26/2021

Before the 2020 election, then Presidential candidate Joe Biden vowed to be the “strongest labor president you have ever had.” Although he has been in office less than 100 days, President Biden shows every sign of living up...more

U.S. House Passed the PRO Act: How It Could Affect the Future of Labor Law

Robinson & Cole LLP on 3/10/2021

On March 9, 2021, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The PRO Act (the Act), if it becomes law, would make vast, union-friendly changes to the National Labor...more

OFCCP Week In Review: February 2021 #2

DirectEmployers Association on 2/8/2021

The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Jennifer Polcer. In today’s edition, they...more

Beltway Buzz - October 2020 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/9/2020

Economic Stimulus Negotiations End. Again. With the current acrimony between Republicans and Democrats at a significant low point, the Buzz did not exactly go out on a limb last week in predicting that there would not be a...more

Beltway Buzz - September 2020 #3

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/21/2020

Chilly Climate in D.C. Just like the bit of autumn chill that descended upon Washington, D.C., this week, congressional negotiations over a new pandemic relief package have cooled. A compromise legislative effort announced...more

Beltway Buzz - July 2020 #4

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/28/2020

Congress Debates Next Relief Package. As the Buzz has anticipated for a while now, this week the U.S. Senate began crafting a “Phase 4” response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While progress was made, as of this writing, no...more

Bill Aimed at Removing Authority from NLRB Introduced in the Senate

Epstein Becker & Green on 10/31/2019

On October 24, 2019, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Protecting American Jobs Act. The bill, cosponsored by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), Rand Paul (R-KY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Marco Rubio...more

Halloween Bill Provides A Scare By Seeking To Prohibit Workplace Arbitration Altogether

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 11/2/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: Congress has once again proposed legislation that would seek to ban mandatory workplace arbitration of employment claims, despite a string of United States Supreme Court decisions upholding arbitration and...more

Food & Beverage Litigation Update | May 2018 #4

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 5/29/2018

Advocacy Groups Urge Senate to Support NOSB - A group of advocacy organizations has sent a letter asking the leaders of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry to “fully support organic agriculture in the...more

Web Exclusive - April 2018: The Top 19 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 5/15/2018

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there were an unprecedented number of changes all through 2017. And if the first four months...more

Joint Employer Standard Relaxed – For Now

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 1/12/2018

Business owners, franchisors, contractors, and staffing agencies can breathe a little easier – for the moment – following the National Labor Relations Board’s reversal last month of a controversial Obama-era standard that...more

NLRB Rolls Back "Browning-Ferris" Joint Employer Test

Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/18/2017

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) yesterday overruled Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc., an Obama-era decision that expanded the doctrine of joint employment under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)....more

SLOW DOWN Congress: You Are About To Render The FAA Inapplicable To Employment Disputes (And Class Waivers), And You Probably...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/8/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: Pending bi-partisan legislation aimed at preventing employers from enforcing arbitration agreements of sexual harassment claims might make employers unable to enforce arbitration agreements, and class...more

House Passes Bill Limiting Joint-Employer Liability

Ballard Spahr LLP on 11/14/2017

The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed H.R. 3441—the Save Local Business Act—which, if enacted, would redefine the term "joint employer" under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the Fair Labor Standards...more

Passage of the Save Local Businesses Act in the House May Signal a Broader Rejection of Obama-Era Rules On Joint Employment

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 11/14/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: On November 7, 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Save Local Businesses Act. If passed by the Senate, the bill would overturn Obama-era decisions and agency guidance broadly defining and...more

WPI Insider Briefing: Will the New Composition of Federal Agencies Effect Change?

Littler on 10/24/2017

Nine months into President Trump’s term, the pace of nominations and appointments to fill critical position within his administration is accelerating. Action on the nominations to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB),...more

WPI Insider Briefing: After ACA "Repeal and Replace" Effort Fails, What's Next For Employers on Health Care and Other Workplace...

Littler on 8/11/2017

Last month began with significant momentum but long odds that Senate Republicans would pass legislation repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the early hours of July 28, GOP efforts came to a screeching...more

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