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Subway Labor Agreement Could Lead to Problematic “Joint Employer” Status

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Subway Labor Agreement Could Lead to Problematic “Joint Employer” Status

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 08/02/2016

It has been just about one year since the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision that rocked the franchise-franchisee world, which dramatically altered…

Labor and Employment

DNC Email Leak Shows Cozy Relationship between Democrats and Unions

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DNC Email Leak Shows Cozy Relationship between Democrats and Unions

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/27/2016

The Democratic Party and labor unions are consistently accused of having a quid pro quo relationship, and for good reason. Emails from the DNC email…

Labor and Employment

Democratic Party Platform Seeks to Curb Worker Choice and Opportunity

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Democratic Party Platform Seeks to Curb Worker Choice and Opportunity

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/25/2016

The policies set forth in the Democrat platform are misguided – in order to help American workers really succeed in the 21st century, we should roll…

Labor and Employment

Labor Regulators Set Sights on Microsoft

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Labor Regulators Set Sights on Microsoft

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/20/2016

It has almost been one year since the National Labor Relations Board dramatically changed the definition of “joint employer” in Browning-Ferris.

Labor and Employment

Worst Procedural Abuses of the Obama Era: Regulation by Guidance

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Worst Procedural Abuses of the Obama Era: Regulation by Guidance

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/20/2016

Federal agencies are to publish a notice of rulemaking and allow the public time to comment on the rule before it becomes final, or legally…

Labor and Employment

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CEI Supports Defunding Obama’s Joint Employer Standard in House Appropriations Bill

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/13/2016

This week, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee will markup the Fiscal Year 2017 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations bill. CEI commends the…

Labor and Employment

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CEI Commends Rep. King’s Amendment to Halt Enforcement of Davis-Bacon

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/13/2016

This week, the House is scheduled to vote on the Fiscal Year 2017 Interior and Environment Appropriations bill (H.R. 5538). CEI commends Rep. Steve King’s…

Labor and Employment

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NLRB Overturns Precedent, Makes Organizing Two Workplaces At Once Easier

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/11/2016

In a case involving Browning-Ferris Industries, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision overturned longstanding precedent regarding joint employer status—when two employers in a contractual…

Labor and Employment

Feds Threaten the Independence of Small Business Owners

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Feds Threaten the Independence of Small Business Owners

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/03/2016

We value our independence in the country, and not just from imperial foreign governments like the British 240 years ago.

Labor and Employment

The Fight for Union Dues Independence

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The Fight for Union Dues Independence

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/01/2016

This holiday weekend, we celebrate the birth of our great country. Two hundred and forty years ago, the United States adopted the Declaration of Independence…

Labor and Employment

Federal Labor Agencies’ Actions Threatens Worker Opportunity

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Federal Labor Agencies’ Actions Threatens Worker Opportunity

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/30/2016

During the course of the Obama administration, federal labor agencies have turned labor and employment policy on its head via a slew of regulations, sub-regulatory…

Labor and Employment

Congress Fights Back Against DOL Attack on Flexible Work and Small Business

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Congress Fights Back Against DOL Attack on Flexible Work and Small Business

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/20/2016

Congress may have missed an opportunity to defund the Department of Labor’s overtime rule via the appropriations process, but they have not given up the…

Labor and Employment

Speaker Ryan’s Deregulatory Report: Clamp Down on Federal Labor Agencies’ Overreach

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Speaker Ryan’s Deregulatory Report: Clamp Down on Federal Labor Agencies’ Overreach

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/14/2016

Today, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) released his plan for how to modernize our federal regulatory system in order to jumpstart the economy. This is…

Labor and Employment

House Committee Examines Overtime Rule’s Negative Impact on Non-Profits and Universities

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House Committee Examines Overtime Rule’s Negative Impact on Non-Profits and Universities

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/09/2016

The House Education & Workforce Committee held a hearing today that examined the Department of Labor’s recent overtime regulation’s impact on non-profits and universities.

Labor and Employment

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Heavily Scrutinized NLRB Joint Employer Standard Heads to Court

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/09/2016

Most people can pretty easily tell you who their boss is, but the Obama administration has made that a difficult question. In a decision last…

Labor and Employment

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NLRB Downplays Pro-Union Threats

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/26/2016

Union bias permeates the actions of the current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). This is hardly surprising since a former union lawyer, Richard Griffin,…

Labor and Employment

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White House Supports Bill that Exempts Puerto Rico from New Overtime Regulation

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/23/2016

Progressives praised the Department of Labor’s new overtime rule as a way to fatten workers’ pockets and a means to strengthen the middle class. If…

Labor and Employment

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Free Market Organizations Call on Congress to Block the DOL Overtime Rule

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/17/2016

Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute along with 16 other organizations sent a letter to Congress in support of the Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity…

Labor and Employment

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Members-Only Unions Benefits Unions and Individual Workers

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/16/2016

There has been a surge in right-to-work laws over the past couple of years. Since 2012, four states (Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, and West Virginia) revoked…

Labor and Employment

Small Businesses and Nonprofits Ill-Equipped to Handle DOL’s Overtime Rule

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Small Businesses and Nonprofits Ill-Equipped to Handle DOL’s Overtime Rule

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/11/2016

The Department of Labor's overtime rule may be published as early as next week. The rule's "one-size-fits-all" nature is set to harm small businesses the…

Labor and Employment

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Companies May Scrutinize Employee Activity More under DOL’s Proposed Overtime Rule

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/03/2016

The battle over the Department of Labor’s proposed overtime rule is heating up. A number of business groups, labor unions, and progressive organizations have met…

Labor and Employment

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Congress Needs to Halt DOL Regulatory Onslaught

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/02/2016

Last week, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) called out recent Department of Labor policies as having a “chilling effect” on the economy. Ryan’s statements were…

Labor and Employment

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Why Is Employee Involvement an Unfair Labor Practice?

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/28/2016

U.S. labor law is largely based on the false narrative of an inequality of bargaining power between employees and employers. The theory goes that an…

Labor and Employment

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A Diverse Collection of Stakeholders Oppose the DOL’s Overtime Rule, Really

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/25/2016

The Huffington Post recently ran a piece entitled, “Who Opposes Overtime Pay Increase, Really?” The author, Harlan Green, publisher at PopularEconomics.com, says, “That’s a…

Labor and Employment

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Give Job Seekers a Break: Get Government Out of the Licensing Business

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/22/2016

Public policy easing union organizing is not an economic cure-all, and really wouldn’t help at all—no matter how many times union-backed politicians say so (see…

Labor and Employment

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Easing Union Organizing Won’t Fix the Economy

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/21/2016

Most progressive policy makers view labor unions as the panacea that would address the problem of stagnate wages and disappearing middle class. A proposal to…

Labor and Employment

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NLRB Puts Stamp of Approval on Harassment in the Workplace

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/14/2016

Around 80 years ago, Congress created the National Labor Relations Board to bring stability to labor relations in the private sector. The current iteration of…

Labor and Employment

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Union Bosses Order Verizon Workers to Strike

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/13/2016

Today, union bosses ordered 36,000 Verizon workers on the east coast to strike. Nearly all of these employees, 99 percent, service the Verizon…

Labor and Employment

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Wisconsin Judge Rules that Workers’ Wages are Unions’ Property

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/10/2016

On Friday, April 8, a Wisconsin judge handed unions a surprising victory—surprising because of the argument behind his decision.

Government Unions

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State Legislatures Can Dampen Friedrichs Ruling’s Blow to Worker Freedom

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 03/29/2016

Today, the Supreme Court announced a 4 to 4 spilt decision in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a decision that keeps alive the Abood…

Government Unions

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