Employment Policy
The Employment Policy division regularly interacts with Congressional staff, numerous Federal agencies and many national coalitions (some of which are chaired by the Chamber) to help define and shape national labor, immigration and employee benefit policy.
The Employment Policy division regularly interacts with Congressional staff, numerous Federal agencies and many national coalitions (some of which are chaired by the Chamber) to help define and shape national labor, immigration and employee benefit policy.
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On Friday, May 19, the Chamber, along with 7 additional trade associations representing insurers, hospitals, physicians and employers, sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney. The letter outlines serious concerns about the continued uncertainty around funding for cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments and the negative impacts uncertainty will have on millions of Americans if it is not addressed.
A recent Detroit Free Press report about the dismissal of several individuals who skipped work to attend a political protest highlighted...
This letter was sent to the members of the House Subcommittee on Health opposing any amendments that may be offered to the Food and Drug Administration Reauthorization Act of 2017 that would allow the importation of foreign pharmaceuticals into the United States or that would undermine the preemptive authority of federal food and drug regulations. The Subcommittee is marking up the bill tomorrow morning. May 17, 2017
On May 2nd, Senators Corey Booker (D- NJ) and Sherrod Brown (D- Ohio) sent letters to 10 airline CEOs...
This letter was sent to the Chairman Tim Walberg and Ranking Member Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan of the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions in advance of the Subcommittee’s hearing entitled “Regulatory Barriers Facing Workers and Families Saving for Retirement.” The letter expresses the Chamber’s support for policies that encourage employment based retirement saving plans and investment in individual retirement accounts and outlines the Chamber’s policy recommendations – all of which can be found in greater detai
OSHA recently reversed a controversial, albeit obscure, Obama-era policy that had opened the door for union organizers to accompany...
This letter was sent to the members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions opposing amendments that may be offered to S. 934, the Food and Drug Administration Reauthorization Act, that would allow the importation of foreign pharmaceuticals into the United States or that would undermine the preemptive authority of federal food and drug regulations. May 9, 2017