As Connecting the Dots already has reported, earlier this year the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed an overtime rule that would increase the minimum salary for overtime exemption to $35,308 per year, or, from […] Read More
News in North American Manufacturing
As Connecting the Dots already has reported, earlier this year the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed an overtime rule that would increase the minimum salary for overtime exemption to $35,308 per year, or, from […] Read More
Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have reportedly begun to write a broad infrastructure package that would allocate billions of dollars to local and state governments to rebuild roads, ports, transit systems, and airports. […] Read More
The U.S. Commerce Department announced last week that the country’s economy expanded 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 instead of 2.6 percent as originally reported. In other growth-related news, the Federal Reserve Bank […] Read More
As Fastmarkets AMM (subscription required) reported, on March 26 the Mexican government reinstated penalties on imports of certain steel products from countries with which it does not have free trade agreements, or FTAs. (Mexico has […] Read More
According to Fastmarkets AMM (subscription required), global crude steel output increased 4.1 percent from February 2018 to February 2019 to 137.27 million tons. Output in Asian markets rose 6.8 percent to 96.5 million tons […] Read More