Regulatory Agenda, We Hardly Knew Ye. Late last week, stakeholders got a glimpse of the administration’s regulatory plans with the release of the Spring 2025 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. But shortly after the release of the agenda, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs’ (OIRA) website went offline for maintenance, and the agenda became unavailable. OIRA’s website is currently operational, with the caveat that it is “currently undergoing revisions,” though the Spring 2025 regulatory agenda remains unavailable. From the very brief moment that the agenda was publicly available, it appears that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will move to issue regulations relating to independent contractors and joint employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Not sure what happened here, but the Buzz will have a breakdown of the official agenda once it is released.
Proposed H-1B Changes Delayed? In conjunction with the website maintenance at OIRA and the “here it is, here it isn’t” release of the Spring 2025 regulatory agenda, it appears that at least some of the administration’s regulatory proposals have taken a step backward in the rulemaking process. Most notable is U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) proposal to scrap the H-1B lottery and...
Russian propaganda is spreading false statements that the account of the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, was allegedly created with...