The committee focuses on a wide range of labor and employment issues, including: employment nondiscrimination, minimum wage and wage-hour, occupational safety and health, immigration, labor-management relations, union corporate/strategic campaigns, workplace privacy, work-family issues and leave mandates, and emerging international labor policy issues.
The committee focuses on a wide range of labor and employment issues, including: employment nondiscrimination, minimum wage and wage-hour, occupational safety and health, immigration, labor-management relations, union corporate/strategic campaigns, workplace privacy, work-family issues and leave mandates, and emerging international labor policy issues. The committee’s work reflects the Chamber's commitment to crafting sound labor and employment policies in the interest of our members and their employees and to counterbalancing the efforts of other groups advocating the erosion of management rights.
This committee has a number of active subcommittees. They are: Wage, Hour, and Leave; Immigration; Equal Employment Opportunity; Occupational Safety and Health; and National Labor Relations Act. In addition, the committee has a task force on human trafficking that develops best practices, highlights employer programs, and reviews legislative responses.
The Wage and Hour Division at the Department of Labor has created an expanded question and answer page for employers seeking to meet the requirements of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. You can find this page here: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/pandemic/ffcra-questions
This Key Vote Alert! letter was sent to the members of the United States Senate supporting S. 3548, the "Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act."
In non-Coronavirus related news, the AFL-CIO on March 6 filed a lawsuit against the NLRB seeking to overturn its election procedures rule.
Summary of Latest Congressional Action on Coronavirus Response
The National Labor Relations Board will soon be heading to federal court in an attempt to nullify Oregon's so-called “captive audience” law.
California’s AB 5 has taken another life: The new law has now killed off the 40-year old Lake Tahoe Music Festival.
Dear Chairman Nadler and Ranking Member Collins : The U.S. Chamber of Co mmerce supports H.R. 2438 , the “Not Invisible Act of 2019,”which the Committee is expected to mark up on February 26 . This bill would enhance the abilityof tribal communities and t he federal government to combat human trafficking of NativeAmericans and Alaska Natives.
The National Labor Relations Board today announced that it would issue tomorrow its final joint employer rule.
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Letter to West Virginia Governor Justice Supporting HB 2646
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports HB 2646, the proposal to add a Safe Harbor provision to the Wage Payment and Collection Act.