That same Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) that gave quick clearance back in March to Julie Su as Deputy U.S. Secretary of Labor yesterday held a public hearing on the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act). As is often the case in Washington DC, the hearing was more of…
Read More »With pandemic issues swirling around countless minimum wage ihke proposals, we could almost forget about the need for Fair Franchising Legislation in so many states around the country – but we haven’t forgotten. In fact, the Oregon legislature will hold a public hearing next Wednesday, February 17 – via Zoom, of course – on House…
Read More »It’s an issue that’s seemingly been resolved more times than one can count since President Trump took office in 2017, but joint employer is still rearing its ugly head periodically – and this time at the state level. The effort in Colorado to codify the egregious joint employer standard from the Obama-era NLRB almost completely…
Read More »The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has called for a public hearing on October 21 for the purpose of discussing available new technologies and how to best continue food safety efforts initiated under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The FDA has focused much of their efforts thus far on transparency and traceability for…
Read More »A number of cities across the country have adopted some form of soda tax over the past few years, but no such surcharges have been imposed at the state level since 1992. Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia & West Virginia all have soda taxes, while they are preempted by Arizona, California and Michigan. But the dearth of…
Read More »The Raise The Wage Act, federal legislation filed by US House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA), was the subject of the Committee’s first major public hearing of the year yesterday. The legislation (H.R. 582) filed earlier this year with much fanfare and 181 House cosponsors, would more than double the current…
Read More »HB 1620, filed in the Pennsylvania legislature by Representative Peter Dailey, a former Quiznos franchise owner, has been scheduled for a public hearing in another two weeks and we encourage as many DD franchise owners as possible to consider attending the public hearing. The hearing will be held by the House Consumer Affairs Committee at…
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