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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a new Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) that is designed to enhance employee health and safety by aligning the classification and labeling of chemicals in the United States with international standards (as established by the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS))… [
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The battle between employers and government agencies over the classification of workers as employees or independent contractors (an “IC”) has been waged for years. Last year, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Labor announced a joint effort to deal with worker misclassification. [
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An Indiana state court has ruled that Indiana’s new Right to Work law is unconstitutional on the grounds that it violates a provision in the state constitution barring the delivery of services “without compensation”. Specifically, the state court found that the law unlawfully requires unions to represent workers who do not pay dues and other fees to the union. [
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The House Homeland Security Committee is currently circulating a revised draft of the National Cybersecurity and Critical Protection Act (NCCIP), the committee’s cybersecurity legislation. The bill would codify many of the current cybersecurity roles of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC). [
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