The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration continues to face a shortage of inspectors, according to an internal watchdog report, further hampering its ability to enforce safety regulations.
The National Labor Relations Board will continue to apply a worker-friendly precedent that expanded the standard remedies for unfair labor practices at least until another Republican joins the board.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pressing Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to respond to allegations that she committed travel fraud and had an inappropriate relationship with a staffer, marking the first signs she could be losing support from key Republicans.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs was arguably the federal government’s most potent force in integrating federal contractors’ workforces over the past 60 years. It took two days for President Donald Trump to largely dismantle it.
The National Labor Relations Board’s new top lawyer broke with tradition and declined to preview her goals for changing federal labor law at the outset of her term.
Fired National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox lost her bid to get a full appeals court to consider the legality of her termination in light of the US Supreme Court’s pending decision on presidential removal authority.
Lobbyists and C-suite leaders opened the year with a playbook of lessons from 2025. Tops on that list: Decision-making starts with the president. And with a host of policy issues to be resolved, they’re pouring resources into new and old tactics, ranging from hiring connected lobbyists to sending in CEOs.
Construction on a new $16 billion rail tunnel project connecting New Jersey and Manhattan will stop as soon as next week unless the federal government unlocks funds tied to the development.
Rural and smaller urban transit systems are likely to be more exposed to adverse policy changes from the Trump administration because they rely more heavily on federal funding, according to Moody’s Ratings.
The Treasury Department is extending the deadline for Individual Retirement Accounts and Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) arrangements to implement plan amendments that comply with changes mandated by the SECURE 2.0 Act.
The 2017 tax overhaul included incentives to invest in distressed communities. Investors benefit from tax breaks and the designated opportunity zones benefit from economic investment, but critics say already-wealthy investors don’t need these breaks.
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