Three Months Left for CDL…
If an employer has not yet conducted queries in the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse on any CDL drivers they currently employ, time is running out. The deadline to meet the annual qu...
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FMCSA Updates SMS Website
FMCSA has updated the SMS Website with the September 25, 2020 results. With this snapshot, FMCSA has aligned the violations used in SMS to reflect the latest changes to violations ...
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Higher Standards for H-1B Visas…
Federal agencies announced on Oct. 6 long-expected reforms to the H-1B visa program for high-skilled foreign workers that will raise the bar for qualifying for the popular visas. ...
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OSHA’s COVID-19 Reporting Obligations Clarified
Employers will rarely have to report COVID-19-related hospitalizations due to the virus’s lengthy incubation period, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administr...
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U.S. Goods and Services Trade…
The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that the goods and services deficit was $67.1 billion in August, up $3.7 billion from $63.4 billion in Jul...
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Labor Force Participation Rate Down,…
The labor force participation rate decreased by 0.3 percentage point to 61.4% in September 2020. This was 2.0 percentage points lower than in February and up from a low of 60.2% in...
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Personal Consumption Expenditures Increased 3.9…
State personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased 3.9% in 2019, a deceleration from the 4.9% increase in 2018, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Economic Anal...
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August Monthly Wholesale Sales Up…
Sales August 2020 sales of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, after adjustment for seasonal variations and trading day differences but not fo...
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ACT Research: Commercial Vehicle Market…
According to ACT’s latest release of the North American Commercial Vehicle OUTLOOK, after pulling the cycle forward last month, ACT’s front of the cycle forecasts were marked u...
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