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.
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As any observer of labor policy knows, unions are very much keen on passing the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a radical proposal that would upend American labor law, to put it mildly.
In 2019, the U.S. Chamber released a report discussing the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a bill in Congress that amounted to nothing more than a litany of organized labor’s policy preferences. Subsequently, the U.S.
April 9, 2021 Dear Senator Sinema and Senator Kelly ,
The New Hampshire Business & Industry Association and several other trade associations on April 22 submitted a letter to Senator Shaheen expressing their opposition to the PRO Act.
The New Hampshire Business & Industry Association and several other trade associations on April 22 submitted a letter to Senator Hassan expressing their opposition to the PRO Act.
The American Bar Association (ABA) on April 20 submitted a letter to the leaders of the Senate and the Senate Committe on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions expressing its opposition to the "persuader" rule portion of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act.
This coalition letter was sent to the Congressional leaders, opposing use of the Congressional Review Act to disapprove the “Update of Commission's Conciliation Procedures” finalized by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Ms. Jessica LoomanPrincipal Deputy AdministratorWage and Hour DivisionU.S. Department of Labor200 Constitution Ave., N.W.Washington, DC 20210 By electronic submission: www.regulations.gov
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Comments to DOL re: Rescission of Joint Employer Status Under the Fair Labor Standards Act Rule
Ms. Jessica LoomanPrincipal Deputy AdministratorWage and Hour DivisionU.S. Department of Labor200 Constitution Ave., N.W.Washington, DC 20210 By electronic submission: www.regulations.gov