Employment, Safety Nominations Advance. This week, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) advanced the nominations of Brittany Panuccio to serve on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Jonathan Snare to serve on the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC). If confirmed, Panuccio would join Acting Chair Andrea Lucas and Commissioner Kalpana Kotagal to reconstitute a functioning quorum at the Commission. OSHRC, on the other hand, has no commissioners at all, so Snare would need another nominee to join in order to return a quorum to OSHRC. Notably absent from the voting docket was Crystal Carey, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Carey had her hearing in conjunction with Panuccio’s but faced some tough questions from Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO). Republicans enjoy only a one-seat majority on the HELP Committee, so one defection significantly impacts the vote calculus.
H-1B Wage Selection Rule on the Way? U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has sent to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) a proposed rule titled “Weighted Selection Process for Registrants and Petitioners Seeking To File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions.” At this stage in the rulemaking process, the proposal is not publicly available. When OIRA completes its review, USCIS will release the proposal, and stakeholders will have an opportunity to file...
Choi Jung-won, formerly of the group UN, has been cleared of the false accusation of being an adulterer. On the 26th, Choi Jung-won stated on social media, “Regarding the various claims recently r...