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Department of Labor Resets Wage and Hour and OSHA Penalties Policies
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The Department of Labor has begun rolling out new policies that represent a fairer approach to America’s employers, especially small businesses.
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- The Department of Labor has begun rolling out new policies that represent a fairer approach to America’s employers, especially small businesses.Preserves Employers’ Ability to Manage WorkplacesThe Act would result in OSHA issuing a new ergonomics standard and giving unions a streamlined approach to organizing warehouses.This publication, Anti-Human Trafficking Laws, provides an overview of relevant laws, executive orders, treaties, and conventions, in the international human rights context. The first section of this publication, Federal Laws, highlights human trafficking rules applicable to companies in the U.S. The second part, International Laws, provides an overview of human trafficking treaties and conventions, as well as supply chain due diligence laws in Europe.Businesses that make structural adaptations or other workplace accommodations for employees with disabilities may be eligible for certain tax incentives.These comments were sent to the Department of Labor on the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard on vaccine and testing requirements.Read the Coalition for Workplace Safety's comments to James Frederick, Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, regarding DOL's Emergency Temporary Standard for COVID-19.Read the Chamber's comments to James Frederick, Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, regarding DOL's Emergency Temporary Standard for COVID-19.
