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 work zones, an 11% increase from the year prior and the largest percentage increase of highway work zone fatalities this century.” In keeping with this year s NWZAW theme, let s promise to “
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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 public and private sectors.
The Executive Order criticized the federal government for not having used its “full authority” to support unions and declared it necessary for the federal government to take a “comprehensive approach” to advancing union organizing and collective bargaining. Under these auspices, the Executive Order created the Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment
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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, but also to existing federal contracts when the parties exercise their option to extend such contracts, which often occurs annually.
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