NAW News
Congress Fully Repeals Obamacare’s “Cadillac Tax,” Health Insurance Tax (HIT) and Medical Device Tax
On Thursday, December 19th, Congress overwhelmingly voted to permanently repeal three Obamacare taxes, including the 40 percent excise tax, commonly called the “Cadillac Tax,” the Health Insurance Tax (HIT) on fully-insured health plans and the 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices. This is a major victory for the 181 million Americans and their families who rely on employer-sponsored [...]
Read MoreNAW Files Regulatory Comments Supporting Federal Hours of Service Changes
In August the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking updating the current hours of service rules. Many of the proposed changes followed the suggestions from NAW’s October 2018 comments to the agency’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. NAW has filed additional comments with the Agency applauding them for allowing greater [...]
Read MoreNAW Urges Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice to Investigate Amazon
The National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors sent letters to the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice requesting them to investigate the General Services Administration’s (GSA) proposed e-Marketplace platform and Amazon’s unfair and anti-competitive practices and processes. Under GSA’s Sec. 846 program, Amazon and perhaps one other entity, will be the gatekeeper [...]
Read MoreNAW Challenges Amazon Monopoly on Federal Procurement
The General Services Administration (GSA) is directed to establish a program for their procurement through commercial online e-commerce portals. Congress directed GSA to go beyond a single marketplace and include multiple commercial e-commerce portal providers in pilot tests to validate their appropriateness as procurement vehicles before final implementation. However, GSA states that it will [...]
Read MoreNAW Urges Senate to Pass Surface Transportation Bill
Today, the Infrastructure Working Group – a coalition of national organizations that includes NAW – sent a letter to the Senate urging the passage of a long-term, robustly funded surface transportation reauthorization bill ahead of the September 30, 2020, deadline. The coalition is pushing Congress to act now due to the fact that, traditionally, surface transportation bills take over a [...]
Read MoreFinal Overtime Rule Released
After several years of rulemaking and successful legal challenges by NAW and others which resulted in a second round of rulemaking, the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor on Friday, September 27, 2019, published a final rule “Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales and Computer Employees” – the EAP or so-called [...]
Read MoreHouse Votes to Repeal Obamacare’s “Cadillac Tax”
On Wednesday, July 17th, the House overwhelmingly voted to fully repeal the 40 percent excise tax, commonly called the “Cadillac Tax,” that will impact most employer-sponsored health insurance plans. NAW strongly supports the full repeal of the Cadillac Tax because this tax inevitably forces the reduction of employee benefits and, because of the flawed indexing provisions of the underlying [...]
Read MoreNAW Calls for Labor Department to Revise Joint Employer Standard
During the Obama Administration the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) set a new standard for what constituted a “Joint Employer” for purposes of union organizing and related matters. Under the previous long-held standard an employer had to have direct control over the terms and conditions of employees to be considered a joint employer; the Obama NLRB set a new standard under which [...]
Read MoreNew Legislative Issue Briefs
New and updated Legislative Issue Briefs are now available. Click here to view the full [...]
Read MoreUrge Your Legislators to Support the Drive Safe Act
Please contact your legislators and urge them to support the Developing Responsible Individuals for a Vibrant Economy Act, also called the DRIVE-Safe Act. This legislation would allow employers to provide CDL holders below the age of 21 with an extensive apprenticeship program that will prepare them to be able to drive in interstate commerce. Click here to send messages in support of the [...]
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