Without much fanfare on Tuesday, the National Labor Relations Board made the following announcement via Twitter:

The U.S. Department of Labor announced on October 1, 2013 that the Office of Foreign Labor Certification will neither accept nor process any applications or related materials it receives, including Labor Condition Applications, Applications for Prevailing Wage Determination, Applications for Temporary Employment Certification, or Applications for Permanent Employment Certification, during the suspension of federal government services.

To replenish state unemployment funds, the Obama Administration said on Feb. 8, 2011, that it would propose increasing the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) tax paid by employers by increasing from $7,000 to $15,000 the wage base to which the FUTA tax applies.

Sean Higgins at the Washington Examiner discusses Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's recommendation of lawyer G. Roger King to serve on the National Labor Relations Board.

The Committee asks for several categories of information in order "to better understand the department's efforts," including a "list of all meetings held between the department and the NLRB..."

The Department of Energy pledged $141 million to three offshore wind power programs as part of the government’s push to cultivate innovation in the field.

After putting litigation and procedural setbacks behind them, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) is moving forward with implementation of the state’s greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, which is now slated to commence Jan. 1, 2013. Running in parallel, the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) is moving forward with implementation of the most aggressive renewable portfolio standard (RPS) in the country.

The Pennsylvania General Assembly recently passed Senate Bill 259, which implements significant changes to oil and gas laws of the Commonwealth.

On Aug. 24, 2023, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced the forthcoming publication of a notice of proposed...

Micrgrids are an extremely hot topic when discussing the larger domain of grid modernization.

Against a backdrop of higher-profile rules, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a new Worker Protection Standard (WPS) on September 28 that imposes additional requirements...

EPA issued notice in the August 15, 2013, Federal Register of a direct final rule allowing purchasers to follow ASTM’s then-new Phase I standard E1527-13.

The layered deal struck by the international climate negotiations closing this past weekend in Durban, South Africa, is encouraging.

A recent administrative decision by the EPA is causing concern among water utilities and could cause an immediate shortage of fire hydrants across the country.

Activist investors will put forward a record 142 shareholder resolutions during the upcoming proxy season.

Joint investigations, cross-agency partnership, cooperation … terms all too familiar to regulatory and defense practitioners accustomed to collaboration among the alphabet soup of federal regulators.

Fort Knox National Co., through MAC, is one of the largest processors of military allotments in the nation.

Coinciding with the publication of the new rule, the Bureau has updated its Supervisory and Examination Manual to give its examiners guidance in supervising non-bank auto finance companies.

The Office for Older Americans has already released results of a focus group study on reverse mortgage advertisements and issued an advisory expressing concern about such ads.

Under the terms of the Consent Orders, Paymap and LoanCare are enjoined from further misrepresentations regarding the nature of the program and each must submit a compliance plan to the CFPB...