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Union membership as a percentage of the workforce declined again in 2023, hitting a new record low.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission needs to restore an employer’s ability to maintain a harassment-free workplace.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a new “walk-around” regulation that will result in OSHA-sanctioned trespassing.
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This statement for the record was sent to all members of the House Education and Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions for a hearing today on “Enhancing Retirement Security: Examining Proposals to Simplify and Modernize Retirement Plan Administration.”
In the years since the passage of the 1947 passage of the Taft-Hartley Act that permitted states to pass right-to-work laws, numerous...
Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) recently introduced a bill to bring much-needed transparency to front groups acting on behalf of the labor unions that support them...
The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) in the U.S. Department of Labor is the federal agency responsible for administering and enforcing most provisions of...
A new report released today by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Employment Policy Division urges the U.S. Department of Labor to revisit...
Today, the Chamber submitted comments to the NLRB calling on the Board to begin a rulemaking that would undo the disastrous “ambush” election rule issued in 2014.
April 16, 2018 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE:
The U.S. Chamber strongly supports S. 140, which includes the “Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2017” (TLSA) as a provision. The Chamber urges support of S. 140, and will consider including votes on, or in relation to, this bill in the Chamber's annual How They Voted scorecard.
For most employees, one of their largest retirement assets is an employer-provided retirement plan...