NAM/IndustryWeek 3Q 2014 Survey of Manufacturers: Special Questions on Labor Regulations, Health Insurance

The Obama Administration has undertaken several initiatives to amend current labor regulations and standards through executive order, formal rulemaking and interpretive guidance. Among the more high-profile actions, President Barack Obama issued an executive order that would effectively blacklist federal contractors that have violated labor-related laws in the previous three years; the NLRB is set to finalize a regulation to speed up the union election process; and the DOL is in the process of revising the overtime regulations in the Fair Labor Standards Act. read more