Amid Immigration Reform Push, Everify Emerges
May 14, 2011President Obama’s recent investment in pushing immigration reform has thrust the mandated use of Everify by employers back into the spotlight both via the administrations immigration reform blueprint and within deliberations on Capitol Hill. President Obama made his first major immigration reform speech since July 2010 in El Paso, Texas...
READ MOREHouse Examines Davis-Bacon Report
April 19, 2011The House Education and Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections held a hearing to examine the Department of Labor’s (DOL) implementation of the Davis-Bacon Act, specifically concerning a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found poor data is being used to set prevailing wage rates. The Davis-Bacon Act is the 1931 federal law...
READ MORELabor Law Round-Up
February 1, 2011Several events have been underway in relation to labor laws and their impact on small businesses, including continued activity at the National Labor Relations Board and a recently withdrawn proposed regulation from the Department of Labor. Most recently, President Obama re-nominated Craig Becker, who gained his seat from a controversial 2010recess appointment....
READ MORENLRB Proposed Rule on Posting Requirements
January 4, 2011The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) Dec. 22, 2010 requesting comments on a proposed requirement that all private sector employers subject to theNational Labor Relations Act (NLRA) post a notice in the workplace informing employees of their rights under the NLRA. However, unlike a simple notice-posting...
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