Tax Increases Pass House, Senate Fate Uncertain Ahead of Thanksgiving, the House passed President Biden’s “Build Back Better Act,” a $1.75 trillion bill (H.R. 5376), which included several tax increases. No Republicans voted for the 2,100-plus page bill. Now before the ...
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California’s Senate Bill 657 (SB 657) is a workplace posting bill which takes effect on January 1, 2022. SB 657 addresses the electronic distribution of state required workplace postings but does not change the employers’ obligations to physically post required ...
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On Nov. 5, the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring companies with more than 100 employees to develop, implement and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, unless they adopt a policy requiring employees to ...
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Monterey, CA (Nov. 12, 2021) — The Far West Equipment Dealers Association (FWEDA) selected Tim Robinson, director of Agriculture for Arizona Caterpillar dealer Empire Southwest, as the 2021 Presidents Award recipient during its annual conference, Nov. 10-12 in Monterey, California. ...
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Most business owners spend hours monitoring the important things in their life — things like employee payroll, inventory management, and equipment maintenance all get done because the consequences of ignoring them could be costly. Unfortunately, what many people don’t realize ...
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Federal Appeals Court Blocks OSHA's Vaccine Mandate: What Does This Mean for Employers? Citing potential “grave statutory and constitutional issues” with the mandate-or-test emergency vaccine rule unveiled by OSHA on Thursday, a federal appeals court issued an order blocking the ...
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FWEDA hosts a session with manufacturers and dealers, 9:30 a.m. Nov. 12 at the Hyatt Monterey, for an overview of the diagnostic and repair tools available to end users, along with a panel discussion on best practices for working with ...
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November 4, 2021 — The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) officially filed its Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on Covid-19 Vaccination and Testing in the Office of the Federal Register. Though the scheduled publication date was November 5, 2021, ...
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The ink was barely dry on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature for AB 1346 — which requires all new small off-road engines (SORE) sold in the state to be zero-emissions (ZE) by 2024 — when the California Air Resources Board (CARB) ...
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On Tuesday, October 12, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) began its required review of a draft Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) emergency temporary standard (ETS) that would mandate certain private-sector companies to require either employee COVID-19 vaccinations ...
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