On Feb. 17, 老牛影视sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) expressing concern over several regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).听

On Jan. 20, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Wage and Hour Division Administrator David Weil released a detailed Administrator鈥檚 Interpretation (AI) and related guidance on the definition of joint employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA). 听The new DOL guidance comes on the heels of recent, controversial expansion of the joint employer definition by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). According to the new DOL guidance, joint employment occurs 鈥渨hen an employee is employed by two (or more) employers such that the

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On Feb. 12, the West Virginia legislature voted 18-16 to override Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin鈥檚 vetoes of 听a prevailing wage repeal bill and the West Virginia Workplace Freedom Act, making West Virginia the 26th Right to Work state in the country and the fourth state to pass Right to Work since 2012.听

Last week, the New Hampshire House rejected a bill (House Bill 1641) that would have required prevailing wage be paid on all state construction projects. Citing a union-backed study, proponents of the bill argued the legislation would create jobs, spur economic activity, and raise workers鈥� wages without increasing the cost of projects. Opponents rejected those assertions and insisted the state would pay more for construction projects under the provisions of the bill.听

The New York Independent Budget Office (IBO) has released a听revised report on the impact prevailing wage requirements would have on听affordable housing projects built with the 421a property tax break. The 421a tax credit had been the subject of extensive听negotiations in the past months. In Jan. 2016, the parties involved announced听they could not reach a compromise, killing the tax credit and jeopardizing听Mayor de Blasio鈥檚 plans for 80,000 affordable housing units for New York City听residents. The agency had initially estimated that prevailing wage requirements听would add $2.8 billion to the initiative鈥檚 total, bu

In its Jan. 29 decision in Guardsmark, LLC,听the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) extended its restriction on captive-audience听meetings in the run up to a mail ballot union election by an additional 24听hours. Captive-audience meetings occur when an employer holds a group campaign听meeting with employee voters during work hours to oppose union representation.听The NLRB prohibits these meetings in the 24 hours leading up to the 鈥渟cheduled听time for conducting鈥澨齛 manual election; however, the NLRB had not imposed a similar preliminary ban听in mail ballot elections until the Guardsmark听decision.&

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On Feb. 4, the West Virginia Legislature sent two important bills to the governor鈥檚 desk. The House of Delegates passed ABC-supported right-to work legislation, the 鈥淲orkplace Freedom Act鈥� (SB 1) by a vote of 54-46, while the state Senate approved legislation repealing the state鈥檚 prevailing wage law along party lines. The measures were intensely debated in both chambers in the weeks leading up to the votes. West Virginia鈥檚 prevailing wage law was mired in controversy following the passage of a reform bill in 2015 and ABC鈥檚 West Virginia Chapter has been a vocal supporter of repealing the state鈥檚 prevailing wage.

老牛影视has added Southern California Chapter member Christopher White of Tutton Insurance Services, Inc. to the Beam Club Hall of Fame level.