Sarah Westwood of the Washington Examiner highlights the latest left-of-center policy idea on Capitol Hill. House liberals are lining up behind a proposal to shorten the U.S. workweek to four…
Patrick Pizzella writes for National Review Online about the Trump Labor Department‘s notable achievements. Under President Trump’s leadership, the Department of Labor has taken a hard look at our regulatory…
Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller reports on recent reversals of federal labor policies. Obama administration efforts to change labor policies through executive actions are being unraveled by legal and…
Again, we return to my innumeracy. At the last meeting of the Buncombe County Commissioners, Assistant County Manager Mandy Stone said, “What I really have is a social work staff…
Many MBA programs have been criticized as offering little educational value. Often, the faculty members have scant business experience themselves, but are just academics who preach theories about business. That’s…
I am filling out admission forms for somebody who will be having a couple medical procedures. In one packet, there are eight pages. Each asks the patient’s name and birth…
Sam Hieb reports for Carolina Journal Online about the debate surrounding a $65 million downtown performing arts center for Greensboro. Roy Cordato’s Daily Journal probes problems linked to President Obama’s…
Now he is meddling in wage and hour matters by telling the Department of Labor to reformulate the regulations on overtime so that (ta da!) lots more Americans will get…
The debacle continues at the U.S. Postal Service. Paid overtime costs for fiscal 2012 amounted to $3.53 billion, up almost 7 percent from 2011, the IG found. At one Des…
Roy Cordato added his thoughts to a WNCN investigative report about potential abuse in state government overtime pay.
The Herald-Sun reports the N.C. Attorney General’s office has notified Durham police that, after reviewing the case of the now former police officer who received $60,000 in overtime pay, there…
The latest on the Durham cop overtime scam comes from the Herald-Sun: District Attorney Tracey Cline said Thursday that she’s calling in the State Bureau of Investigation to look into…