Office of Advocacy

On Jan. 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) published a proposed rule to protect fair trade, financial integrity and competitive marketing for livestock, meat and poultry under the Packers…

By Claudia Rodgers, Senior Counsel Now that the new year and a new decade is here, there is much to celebrate. Not only is it a chance for a fresh start and a new outlook, this is an opportunity to look back and remember the past to…

Report Research Summary As workers age, they face an increasing risk that health problems will force them out of the labor force. However, workers with more control over their work conditions may be better able to manage the…

The next Small Business Labor Safety (OSHA/MSHA) Roundtable will be held on Friday, January 24, 2020 from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon.  The meeting will be held at the U.S. Small Business Administration, Eisenhower (Concourse level)…

On January 6, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register that would update the FCC’s unbundling and resale rules. In its proposal, the FCC states that it…

On December 31, 2019, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a proposed rule that would establish requirements for the remote identification of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) (i.e., drones) operating in the airspace of the…

On Jan. 9, 2020, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the implementation of the H-1B visa registration process for H-1B cap subject individuals. The H-1B program allows companies in the U.S. to…

On Jan. 2, 2020, EPA announced the availability of its revised document, “‘TSCA New Chemical Determinations: A Working Approach for Making Determinations under TSCA Section 5.’’ The initial version of this document was published in 2017,…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that it may convene a Small Business Advocacy Review panel under the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement and Fairness Act (SBREFA) in anticipation of new regulations on…

On Jan. 3, 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency published a notice extending the comment period for its draft risk evaluation for N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) to Jan. 21, 2020. EPA published its draft risk evaluation for NMP on…