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Category: Agency Enforcement

OSHA Issues Proposal To Reinstate Controversial “Union Walkaround Policy”

The U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed revising its regulations to expressly permit employees to designate third parties, such as labor union officials, to accompany OSHA compliance officers on walkaround inspections of an employer’s workplace. The proposal essentially seeks to reinstate an Obama Administration policy that was ruled unlawful because it was not adopted through...
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Category: Government Contracts

New Law Banning TikTok on Government Devices Is Impacting Federal Contractors

The “No TikTok on Government Devices Act”—which Congress passed in December as part of the omnibus spending bill—has compliance implications for federal contractors. A few weeks ago, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council published an Interim Rule to implement the new law. The interim rule requires federal contracting agencies to insert into new contracts a clause prohibiting the contractor from...
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Category: FLSA

DOL Proposed Rule Would Make Millions of White Collar Workers Eligible for Overtime

The Department of Labor (DOL) has released its long-expected proposal to revise the regulations governing the minimum wage and overtime exemption for salaried employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The proposed rule would increase by nearly 55 percent the current salary threshold under which an otherwise exempt white collar worker would qualify for overtime pay. Specifically, the minimum...

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