Sentences with phrase «labor department first»

The Labor Department first proposed an expanded fiduciary definition under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, in 2010, but withdrew the proposal the following year amid broad criticism that it would impose onerous restrictions on the industry that would cause financial professionals to abandon the retirement space, leaving low and moderate - income Americans in the lurch.

Not exact matches

The Labor Department reported on Wednesday that consumer prices fell for the first time in 10 months in March, hampered by a decline in gasoline prices.

The Labor Department originally estimated that the delay could cost investors $ 147 million in the first year, and $ 890 million over 10 years, in front - load mutual funds alone — though the final delay declined to adopt any estimate.

A look back in history is a good place to start to understand how the Department of Labor came up with its fiduciary rule in the first place.

Delay is the first step in defeating the Department of Labor fiduciary rule, says our Kim O'Brien.

A hearing on the first of three lawsuits designed to stop the Department of Labor fiduciary rule from taking effect begins Thursday.

So Mr. Négri combed through public documents that employers file with the Department of Labor as a first step in an H - 1B application.

On July 8, the public got its first view into how the U.S. Department of Labor will defend its fiduciary rule when it filed a cross motion for summary judgment, asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss a law suit brought by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

A report from the Labor Department showed hourly worker compensation accelerated at a 3.4 per cent rate in the first quarter after rising at a 2.4 per cent pace in the October - December period.

A rule announced last year by the Department of Labor, will soon require them to uphold what's called a «fiduciary» standard, meaning they must put their clients» best interests first.

President Obama first signed an executive order requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave last September, and the Labor Department unveiled a draft of the rule in February, after which it solicited public comments.

Donald Falk and my colleague Eugene Volokh have done a backgrounder for WLF on Labor Department's Fiduciary Rule Tests First Amendment Limits

According to the Labor Department, the CPI (NYSE: CPY) last month slipped 0.41 percent, its first decline in 10 months.

Broker - dealers should be «nervous» if they don't have policies and procedures in place before the Department of Labor fiduciary rule's first deadline hits next April, Timothy Hauser, one of the chief architects of the rule, said Tuesday at a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority conference in Washington.

The Department of Labor's long - awaited final fiduciary rule «ensures that putting clients first is no longer a marketing slogan, it's the law,» Labor Secretary Thomas Perez told reporters on a Tuesday afternoon call to announce completion of DOL's rule to amend the definition of fiduciary on retirement advice.

Despite that distinction, President Barack Obama is one of her biggest fans: In his speech last year pushing the Department of Labor to press on with its fiduciary standard rule, he pointed out Garrett by name as an FA who puts the best interests of her clients first.

The delay in the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule until July 1, 2019, which had weighed down Allianz Life in the first half of this year, is no longer having a «major impact on what we are doing,» said Terzariol.

-LRB-...) The Labor Department reported Thursday that wages and salaries for private - sector workers rose 2.8 % in the year through the first quarter, the best since 2008.

Joint Base Lewis - McChord's Service Member for Life — Transition Assistance Program has coordinated with the Department of Labor and other transition organizations to bring the first American Job Center to a military installation.

A day ahead of the release of the more closely watched monthly jobs report, the Labor Department released a report on Thursday showing a modest increase in first - time claims for U.S. unemployment benefits in the week ended April 28th.

Labor productivity in the U.S. rose by less than expected in the first quarter, according to a report released by the Labor Department on Thursday.

A report released by the Labor Department on Thursday showed a modest decrease in first - time claims for U.S....

The National Restaurant Association (NRA), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor, set out to solve that problem and this week introduced the industry's first - ever Food and Beverage Service Competency Model that will help identify the best potential employees and the skills needed to excel.

For the first time PACK EXPO Las Vegas welcomed the Department of Labor's Veterans» Employment and Training Service (VETS) to the NextGEN Networking Fair which offered a one - of - a-kind matchmaking opportunity for exhibitors and attendees to connect with the emerging workforce.

Through the efforts of the student body department and the recreational department we held our first annual Pacific Meltdown for students who might not have anything to do labor day weekend.

Labor costs often amount to as much as half of the budget for a school nutrition department, but salary for cafeteria workers varies greatly, with some districts paying close to minimum wage for entry level workers, while others may pay closer to $ 15 - 20 per hour even for those workers still at first step.

Unions on Thursday vowed to keep the pressure on President Donald Trump's second nominee to fill the top post at the Department of Labor after his first nominee for secretary withdrew from consideration.

The Labor Department now says the private sector added 607,000 jobs during Cuomo's first four years in office, 71,700 higher than the previous estimate.

The first and potentially largest exception could be made in case of «economic downturn,» as measured by three consecutive monthly declines in a «composite index of business cycle indicators» to be compiled and maintained by the Labor Department.

NYS Labor Department officials say that newly revised data shows that New York State's economic expansion continued last year, with the annual private sector job count exceeding eight million for the first time.

The White House has appointed Chanan Weissman, who formerly served as a spokesperson for the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, as its first Modern Orthodox Jewish liaison.

Paterson quickly signed five pieces of legislation on his first day in office: to add the New York State Department of Labor to the New York City Transit Track Safety Task Force; to eliminate a law that discouraged employers from holding blood drives; to change the way in which members are appointed to a state health and research board; to restore eligibility caps to certain senior employment programs; and to grant tax exemptions to several local development corporations in New York State.

Stuart Appelbaum, head of the Retail Workers and Department Store Union (RWDSU), the local labor leader who invited Trumka to the armory, said that «bringing the head of the AFL - CIO the first week after he is elected sends a powerful message about what working people want in economic development.

«Puzder had no business running the Labor Department — an agency that uncovered wage theft at a number of Puzder's own restaurants — and it remains baffling that President Trump even nominated him in the first place.

The investigation, which is being led by the U.S. Department of Labor, was revealed last month when a federal grand jury subpoena was sent to the Rockland County PEF union formerly headed by Deborah J. Lee, whose purchases first drew scrutiny within her union's ranks two years ago.

In November, the mayor made a show of rolling out his labor support when he first declared for reelection, touting early endorsements from SEIU 32BJ, the Uniformed Sanitation Workers Union, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

Agencies designated for the first round of the Program include the Department of Agriculture and Markets; the Department of State; the Department of Environmental Conservation; the Department of Health; the Department of Labor; the Department of Taxation and Finance; and the State Liquor Authority.

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The plan for policing J'Ouvert — a Caribbean festival meaning «day break» that is observed in the very early morning of Labor Day to celebrate the start of carnival — includes officially issuing a permit for the event for the first time ever, flooding the neighborhood with about 200 portable light towers and parking more patrol cars with lights flashing in the area to deter those who may want to do harm, said NYPD Chief of Department James O'Neill.

In January, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union became the first labor union to endorse the governor for a third term.

For his comparisons between the first half of this year and last year, Auerbach said he had secured data from the county clerk (on mortgage taxes), the department of finance (on sales - tax collections through June), the commissioner of health, the federal department of commerce and the state department of labor.

As one sign of the field's popularity, the U.S. Department of Labor (Washington, D.C.) saw fit for the first time this year to list biomedical engineering as a profession in its biannual Occupational Outlook Handbook.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration made the first systematic estimates of the size and growth of the modern mapping workforce and divided it into 10 distinct occupations, including GIS scientist and technician and various kinds of surveyors and cartographers.

«Conventional wisdom is that academic performance in high school is important for college admission, but this is the first study to clearly demonstrate the link between high school GPA and labor market earnings many years later,» says French, director of the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) in the Department of Sociology at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of the study.

First, the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL's) new rule about overtime pay, announced 18 May, is sure to disrupt financial arrangements in many labs.

Wistar's Biomedical Research Technician (BRT) Apprenticeship is the first - ever registered, nontraditional apprenticeship program for biomedical research ratified by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry.

February 27, 2015 • The Labor Department will draft new rules requiring retirement advisers to put consumers» best interests first.

The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a federal court to order a new election of officers for the Washington Teachers Union, alleging that irregularities marred the vote that gave the District of Columbia union its first elected officials since an embezzlement scandal toppled its leaders in 2002.

The hearing scheduled for May 10 will focus on the Department of Education's oversight of the $ 1 billion - a-year initiative to improve reading achievement in disadvantaged schools, and the steps being taken to prevent conflicts of interest in Reading First and other federal programs, according to a letter to Ms. Spellings from Education and Labor...

The first is that everyone engages in vague «it's for the kids» banalities, agree that the kids must come first, and pledge vague, meaningless collaboration going forward (e.g. see the Denver labor summit that the U.S. Department of Education hosted in February).