As outrageous decisions such as this one are announced in Washington, those same groups agitating for $15/hour protests across the country held what they called a Fight For 15 Convention in Villa Park, an affluent suburb of Chicago, last weekend. The convention was organized by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which is the radical…
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We wondered aloud last week where the idea of a $15/hour minimum wage would next rear its head and it didn’t take long to find out. On Monday of this week, San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee announced a “negotiated compromise” that seeks to raise the minimum wage in San Francisco to $15/hour, the highest in…
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We advised you of this issue in the March 28, 2014 Small Regular No Sugar when it first came to our attention, but it is important enough where we wanted to revisit it. Our friends at Sesco Management Consulting have issued another advisory on an interpretation letter published by the Occupational Safety Hazard Administration (OSHA)…
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In what is an egregious appointment for franchise owners and small businessmen and women throughout the country, Boston University business school professor David Weil was confirmed by the US Senate on April 28 as the Administrator of the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. Confirmed by a straight party line vote, Weil officially…
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The Wall Street Journal reported this week on a plan by SEIU (Service Employees International Union) to push another wage strike by fast food workers next week across the country. In another article, it is reported that McDonald’s workers in up to 150 cities across the US are planning a strike for this Thursday and…
Read More »The United States Senate may advance President Obama’s nomination of Professor David Weil as Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor to the floor for a confirmation vote this month. Weil, who wrote a 2010 report for the Wage and Hour Division entitled “Improving Workplace Conditions Through Strategic Enforcement“, advocates…
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In continuing a string of anti-business rulings, the National Labor Relations Board has again come down hard on standard business decisions, ruling recently that an employer’s enforcement of a workplace policy prohibiting employees from disseminating confidential information, such as personal or financial information violated the National Labor Relations Act and was therefore illegal. The particular…
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Notwithstanding the fact that union membership in private sector places of employment is at its lowest level since the organized labor movement took hold last century, the present administration in Washington is doing all within their power to expand and embolden labor unions across the country. Many of you may have read where the National…
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We also learned this week of the true meaning of a small ‘OSHA regulatory clarification‘ implemented last year by the Obama administration whereby a “third-party who is not an employee of the employer (such as an industrial hygienist or a safety engineer)” may accompany an OSHA inspector on his/her official inspections of private employment sites. …
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Efforts at the national, state and local levels to increase the minimum wage continue to make news and will likely do so right on through the fall mid-term elections. There seems to be a concerted effort by the Obama Administration and a bona fide strategy by the democratic party to make ‘income inequality’ an issue…
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