Policy Matters Podcast

Policy issues often have long term widespread and pervasive impact on businesses. Not only can new governmental policies significantly affect the climate for business innovation and growth, they create precedents that affect future legislation and potentially spread across jurisdictions.

Each installment of the Policy Matters Podcast will provide timely updates regarding potential adverse impacts on benefits that policy changes can have on industry growth and offer a preview of what’s next in the competitive marketplace. Listen and learn more about each episode of the podcast in the links provided below:

• Episode 29: Mid-Term Elections Review

• Episode 28: Reanimating the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force Federal Contractor COVID-19 Guidance

• Episode 27: Independent Contractor Classification: An Uneven Analytical Road

• Episode 26: Feeling the Bern: Government Contractors Could Face Blacklisting - Again

• Episode 25: Mmm...(Davis-)Bacon: DOL’s “Modernization” of Davis-Bacon Act Regulations

• Episode 24: Employment Arbitration: New Federal Law & Impact On Employer Arbitration Agreements

• Episode 23: How COVID-19 Liability Shields Have Expired and Developed During the COVID Loop

• Episode 22: Student-Athletes Running into the NLRB

• Episode 21: Operation Allies: What Employers Need to Know About US Immigration for Afghans

• Episode 20: Labor Pains - Vaccine Mandates Among Unionized Workforces

• Episode 19: Vaccination Celebration! OSHA Implications for Vaccine Programs

• Episode 18: The Federal Government Wants Employers to Mandate Vaccines; The States? Not So Much.

• Episode 17: Secretary Walsh Continues to Fill his DOL Dance Card

• Episode 16: Cannabis Legalization and the Effect on the L&E World - Part 1 & 2

• Episode 15: A Paradigm Shift in Transportation

• Episode 14: The Future is Here: The NLRB Plans to Vigorously Enforce Employee Rights
• Episode 13: Filling out the DOL Roster: Deputy Secretary and Solicitor Nominees on Tap
• Episode 12: Post-PAID Program, What's a Good-Faith Employer to do? Part 1 & 2
• Episode 11: The Manchin Principle: Fissures in the Democratic Caucus Threaten Biden’s Legislative Agenda
• Episode 10: The PRO Act: What Is It, What’s In It, And Will It Pass?

• Episode 9: GOVERNMENTALphabet Soup: What is an ETS Anyway?

• Episode 8: A Fireside Chat with Former OFCCP Director Craig Leen
• Episode 7: What to Expect at the National Labor Relations Board in 2021
• Episode 6: How California’s Controversial Worker Classification Test Could Affect Federal Policy
• Episode 5: It’s Physics: The Longer the Impeachment, the Slower the Velocity of Change
• Episode 4: Marty Walsh, Secretary of Labor Nominee
• Episode 3: Senate Flip Suggests Quicker Path to Success for Biden, Agenda
• Episode 2: What to Expect When You're Expecting a Biden-Harris OSHA
• Episode 1: What to Expect Post-Inauguration in Labor and Employment