Punching In: Worker Rights, IC Enforcement Close DOL’s Year

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.

Labor Agency Odds and Ends|Tracking NLRB Funding Boost

Rebecca Rainey: While you’ve probably been paying attention to the minutiae of major regulations from the US Department of Labor—think the independent contractor proposal or the still-to-come overtime rule—the agency was doing other work. Here’s what you may have missed.

M-POWER: The DOL earlier this month announced Argentina, Canada, Germany, South Africa, and Spain have joined its Multilateral Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment and Rights initiative or M-POWER, an effort aimed at boosting labor rights and union organizing internationally.

The initiative, launched last year ...