May 8, 2012
On April 26, Judge M. Casey Rodgers of the Northern District Court of Florida issued a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing its new H-2B Program Rule.
March 26, 2012
We recently noted that the President’s budget included an item calling for the repeal of the Section 530 “safe harbor” for independent contractor status determination, and on March 1, Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) reintroduced...
February 8, 2012
On February 2, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee amended and reported out its Surface Transportation Reauthorization bill, known formally as the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act (HR 7), striking out, by amendment,...
January 9, 2012
On December 22, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration released its revised Final Hours-Of-Service rule governing truck drivers, replacing the HOS rule it had promulgated in the middle of the past decade as a condition of avoiding...
December 20, 2011
The December 17 passage of the Omnibus Appropriations bill prevents the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing an onerous “Wage Rule” that would have established non-market wage guidelines for migrant guestworkers brought to the...
November 22, 2011
In the course of a major court-ordered reform of the H-2B guestworker visa program, rulemakings from the U.S. Department of Labor have brought it into conflict with contractors who depend on these guestworkers to accomplish tasks that have failed to...
October 21, 2011
For several months, we have reported on the Department of Labor’s rulemakings to establish new guidelines for regulating wages and working conditions for foreign guestworkers brought to the United States under the H-2B visa program, to work in...
July 29, 2011
An electronic magazine called Farm, Field & Forest, apparently run single-handedly by “professional writer” Genevieve Fraser, focusing mostly on sustainable agriculture and forestry in the Northeastern U.S., includes a frequently...
July 5, 2011
This spring’s Wallow fire had burned 520,000 acres in Arizona as of June 18, causing the evacuation of eight communities, and has now moved into New Mexico; among other consequences, the National Weather Service warns that the extensive burns...
June 2, 2011
“What we heard is that Americans simply don’t want bigger, heavier trucks because they’re worried about the safety of these vehicles on the road.
