As Connecting the Dots reported last month, on December 14, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a notice announcing changes to the process for seeking exclusions from the […] Read More
News in North American Manufacturing
As Connecting the Dots reported last month, on December 14, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a notice announcing changes to the process for seeking exclusions from the […] Read More
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced last week that the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) will re-open during the week of January 11 for new borrowers and certain […] Read More
Shortly after President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office on January 20, he could make a decision about the fate of the Keystone XL project: whether to revoke the existing presidential permit for the project, […] Read More
On January 6, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a final regulation clarifying the standards for differentiating between full-time employees and independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). By clarifying which workers […] Read More
Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a regulation that limits the type of research the agency can use by giving “greater consideration to studies where the underlying dose-response data are available in […] Read More