U.S. Department of Labor’s DOL Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing that the nonfarm economy added only 266,000 jobs in April 2021, well short of the 1 million jobs that many economists were predicting.
The PRO Act is being called a ‘game changer’ by unions, and a threat to worker freedom by right-to-work advocates By: Melinda Rizzo, Contributing Writer May 14, 2021
11:45 am The PRO Act, a prospective legislative move currently under consideration in the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, as proposed would ban state right-to-work laws, require employers to provide personal employee information to unions, such as cell phone numbers and addresses, and make it harder for companies to legally hire gig workers.
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Biden s DOL Top Lawyer Nominee Advances, NLRB Pick Stalls
Law360 (May 12, 2021, 7:16 PM EDT) A Senate panel on Wednesday advanced two of President Joe Biden s nominees for influential posts dealing with labor and employment, including the pick for the U.S. Department of Labor s third-ranking official, but the future of an additional nominee is uncertain.
During a hearing, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted to send along to the full Senate the president s nominations of Seema Nanda for DOL solicitor and Jocelyn Samuels to be a member of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The panel also considered Jennifer Abruzzo for National Labor Relations Board general counsel.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late yesterday expanded the emergency authorization of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to include 12- to 15-year-olds, paving the way for vaccinating a proportion of school-age children before the fall. Today s action allows for a younger population to be protected from COVID-19, bringing us closer to returning to a sense of normalcy and to ending the pandemic. Parents and guardians can rest assured that the agency undertook a rigorous and thorough review of all available data, as we have with all of our COVID-19 vaccine emergency use authorizations, said Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, MD, in a press release.
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Health at Scale Forms External Advisory Board
May 6, 2021 GMT
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SAN JOSE, Calif., May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Health at Scale, a health care machine intelligence company, today announced the formation of an external advisory board of health care experts. The board will bring deep clinical, economic, and public policy experience to guide the company in its mission to make health care delivery more personalized and precise. Founding members include Benjamin Scirica, MD, MPH, Guy David, PhD, Lauren Aronson, Mark Fendrick, MD, and Michael Chernew, PhD.