As noted previously in Week In Review, the Trump Administration will be proposing new overtime regulations. Unlike the Obama Administration’s rule...
Predicting legislative actions at the beginning of a new Congress is always a highly speculative effort but this year it’s even more...
The Department of Labor (DOL) will conduct public listening sessions to gather input about a possible new rule on overtime compensation. The...
The Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it was rescinding the Obama Administration’s “persuader” rule, also known as the “employer gag rule.”...
SAF this week signed onto a letter to Congress opposing the “Workplace Democracy Act” (WDA) (S. 2810 and H.R. 5728), the most recent iteration of...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested more than 100 employees at an Ohio gardening and landscaping company on Tuesday. The...
Fifty-six percent of respondents to a recent Society of American Florists’ survey plan to spend more on labor this year, an expectation that puts...
A major issue keeping a lot of industry growers up at night: labor. Rather, a lack of a reliable labor supply. That was a not-necessarily surprising...
Here’s a question florists ask Derrick Myers, CPA, CFP, all the time: How can I cut my labor during the slow summer and still keep my employees for...
A new partnership between the Society of American Florists (SAF) and Cornerstone Government Affairs ensures that SAF will continue its highly...
What exactly is an independent contractor? The government's new interpretation has several ramifications for floral business owners. The U.S....