Executive Order issued on January 21, 2021. The guidance is not a standard or regulation and creates no legal obligations for employers, but it is a step toward fulfilling a Biden campaign pledge that OSHA would “immediately release and enforce an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to give employers … enforceable guidance on what to do to reduce the spread of COVID.” In 2020, President Donald Trump’s Labor Secretary, Eugene Scalia, declined to enact such an emergency temporary standard, and instead relied upon existing standards that address Respiratory Protection, Personal Protective Equipment, Sanitation, Recordkeeping and the General Duty Clause, which requires employers to provide “employment and a place of employment [that] [is] free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to [its] employees.”
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Bill Hinman, a Silicon Valley deals lawyer and top SEC official, was receiving a $1.6 million pension on top of his roughly $217,000 salary.
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The review by US President Joe Biden’s administration is expected to provide relief to companies that depend on computer science engineers from countries such as India.
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PUNE: The United States will review a proposal that had sought increased wages for new H-1B visa applicants.
The anti-immigrant measure Strengthening Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens in the United States by the previous Donald Trump government would have increased H-1B wages by as much as 30%.
The review by US President Joe Biden’s administration is expected to provide relief to companies that depend on computer science engineers from countries such as India.
Department of Labor officials alerted the White House Wednesday that it has completed work on a reworked rule to regulate investment advice to workers and retirees.
No details are available on any changes to the rule. A notice published Wednesday indicated that the rule was sent to the White House Office of Management and Budget for a required regulatory review.
However, it might be too late for the rule to survive. OMB can take up to 90 days to review the rule, during which time the contents remain under wraps. After the agency signs off, the DOL will release the final rule publicly.
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