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House Subcommittee Examines Reforms to Federal Employees’ Compensation Act

May 20, 2015 Emily Cusick

Today, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), held a hearing entitled, “Reforming the Workers’ Compensation Program for Federal Employees.” The press release about the Hearing states: Enacted in 1916, the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) provides workers’ compensation benefits to federal employees who […]

May 11, 2015
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

The unemployment rate in the American Midwest is declining, but not because there is widespread economic recover, The Wall Street Journal reports. In fact, the unemployment rate has been rapidly decreasing in part because workers are “disappearing: moving away, retiring or no longer looking for a job.” Recovery remains uneven: in twenty metropolitan areas where unemployment fell […]

April 27, 2015
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

In an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal, Pakistani immigrant Amir Siddiqi has realized the American Dream, but believes Washington’s new labor rules are a “nightmare” that impede the progress of small business owners. Siddiqi, who worked his way up to become a franchise owner after years of work in the restaurant industry, writes […]

April 5, 2015
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

According to the March jobs report that was released Friday, the United States “added only 126,000 jobs in March, while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.5 percent. Those terrific numbers from January and February now look a bit less terrific, as revisions subtracted 69,000 positions from the previously reported job gains,” reports The New York […]

March 30, 2015
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

The New York Times published letters in response to a March 18 editorial on “E-Verify” and H.R. 1147, a proposal in Congress that would require that every new hire in the United States be electronically verified. Gabriel Camacho, the Immigration Programs Coordinator at the American Friends Service Committee, writes that “E-Verify would harm employers, workers and the economy,” […]

March 29, 2015
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

Governor Jack Markell of Delaware wrote a letter to the New York Times urging other states to follow in Delaware’s footsteps and “eliminate the arbitrary loss of driver’s licenses for drug crimes that don’t involve automobiles” because “a valid driver’s license is essential to earning and keeping a job, but wrongheaded policies too often take it […]

House Subcommittee Examines Resolution to Block NLRB "Ambush Election" Rule

Mar 4, 2015 Emily Cusick

On Wednesday March 4, the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions held a hearing entitled, “H.J. Res. 29, Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Labor Relations Board relating to representation case procedures.” According to a press release by the House Education and the […]

March 2, 2015
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

Bloomberg Business reports that South Korean Employment and Labor Minister Lee Ki Kweon said in an interview that large companies should hire more permanent workers and boost pay to subcontractors. One-third of South Korea’s workforce is employed on temporary contracts, and these contract workers earn an average 56 percent of what regular, full-time employees earn. On Sunday, German […]

House Subcommittees Hold Hearing on "Rewriting Federal Labor Policies Through Executive Fiat"

Feb 27, 2015 Emily Cusick

On Thursday, February 26, the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), and the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), held a joint subcommittee hearing on “The Blacklisting Executive Order: Rewriting Federal Labor Policies Through Executive Fiat.” President Obama issued Executive Order 13673 in July 2014, which […]

February 16, 2015
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

Strikes at U.S. oil refineries have entered their third week, and both employers and employees have begun to raise safety concerns. As replacement workers join the ranks at the nine striking refineries, questions are arising about potential safety and production risks from an extended walkout. While such warnings may seem like a negotiating tactic for management, some striking […]

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House Subcommittee Examines Resolution to Block NLRB "Ambush Election" Rule

March 2, 2015

House Subcommittees Hold Hearing on "Rewriting Federal Labor Policies Through Executive Fiat"

February 16, 2015