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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]