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We are wedded to workplace safety news this week. Yesterday marked “ Go Orange Day,” a special way to remember those who have lost their lives to vehicle accidents in work zones. Let's vow to take extra precaution as we move into the spring months and roadway construction season. UNTIL DEATH DO US PART As part of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) reportsthat, “while large trucks make up roughly 5% of vehicular traffic, they continue to have a disproportional involvement (33%) in fatal crashes occurring in work zones. In 2019, 842 people died in crashes in highway wor...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Following on his promises to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen,” President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on Worker Organizing and Empowerment (“Executive Order”) on April 26, 2021, creating a task force whose purpose is to strengthen unions and make it easier for workers to unionize. Along with endorsing the Protecting the Rights to Organize Act in March, President Biden is affirmatively putting a heavy federal foot on the scale to empower unions and bolster declining union membership, both in the ...

On Tuesday, April 27, President Biden signed an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay their employees a minimum of $15 an hour starting on March 30, 2022. After that, the order will continue to index the minimum wage for federal contractors to an inflation measure. This raise in the pay floor – which was previously increased by President Obama – represents a hike of about $4. This new minimum wage must be reflected in all new contract solicitations by January 2022, and built into actual contracts by March 2022. This will apply, not just to new or renewed federal contracts,...

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Today, President Biden will sign an Executive Order establishing the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment. The Task Force will be dedicated to mobilizing the federal government’s policies, programs, and practices to empower workers to organize and successfully bargain with their employers. Chaired by Vice-President Kamala Harris and Vice-Chaired by Secretary Marty Walsh, the Task Force will include more than twenty cabinet members and heads of other federal agencies who will take a whole-of-government approach to empower workers. Background President Biden and Vice-Pr...