Our members often lament the difficulties they encounter in trying to hire and retain good workers in a tight labor market. Well, it seems the labor market is only getting tighter as Labor Department figures released last week showed unemployment claims for the week ended February 24 had decreased by 10,000 claims to 210,000. That…
Read More »The Small Business Administration (SBA) keeps marching ahead under President Trump’s orders to find and eliminate regulatory burdens on small businesses. The agency has held a number of Regulatory Reform hearings around the country over the past year and continues to schedule the public forums. Upcoming Regulatory Reform hearing, at which small business men and…
Read More »Well, we tried and missed again on projecting a formal vote on the nomination of attorney John Ring to the final vacancy on the National Labor Relations Board. As we told you last week, the Senate Health Education Labor & Pensions Committee (HELP) held its confirmation hearing on the nomination last week and scheduled its…
Read More »Speaking of the NLRB, in the wake of it vacating its decision in the Hy-Brand case two weeks ago which restored the expansive definition of joint-employer, it has asked the DC Court of Appeals to resurrect its judicial review of the Browning-Ferris decision. You will recall that Browning-Ferris was working its way through the courts…
Read More »The DDIFO Northeast Regional Meeting, with expert presentations on Keeping Your Business Free of Sexual Harassment and Tax Cuts & Jobs Act – Highlights and Planning Opportunities will take place next Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at the Sheraton Needham Hotel. These two most timely and informative presentations will feature experts in their respective areas: Lauren…
Read More »Miller Pulse released their February restaurant sales and profit tracking report earlier this week. According to the report, QSR segment same store sales rose .6% in February versus one year earlier, with average ticket up 2.8% and traffic down 2.2%. The two year trend was weaker in February than January, which signaled a more difficult…
Read More »Thursday’s Wall Street Journal had a rare interview with the JAB executives. JAB is the centuries old London based family office and private equity firm that has gotten deep into the US consumer space, especially coffee, since 2012. The interview yields a number of helpful insights into the company and its philosophy with one especially…
Read More »Earlier this week the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reversed an earlier decision and reinstated the expanded Obama-era definition of joint employer. Prompted by a report from the NLRB Office of the Inspector General that found one of the members, William Emanuel, should not have participated in the decision, the 3 remaining members voted unanimously…
Read More »Scheduled to occur weeks ago, the Senate Health Education Labor & Pensions Committee (HELP) finally held its confirmation hearing on Trump NLRB-nominee attorney John Ring. Ring was nominated to fill the final vacant seat on the five-member Board by President Trump back in January and was scheduled for a confirmation hearing last month. That hearing…
Read More »Oral arguments were presented earlier this week before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in the case of Janus v. AFSCME, considered one of the most significant challenges to organized labor in recent years. The issue goes to the heart of the political strength of public employee unions by challenging laws requiring payment…
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