Government & Regulation

In mid-2015 Qatar was at the center of a scandal. Contentious reports suggested that 1,200 migrant workers died working on construction for the 2022 World Cup. The Qatar government refuted the claims, saying no lives had been lost in the construction of stadiums whatsoever. Whatever the real number, the waves of images and stories showing the abysmal…

The Obama administration said that it will challenge a federal court's decision to block President Barack Obama's rule to amend overtime regulations. The Department of Labor filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Thursday, the same day the new rule was set to take effect...

The new overtime regulations may be implemented or repealed in the coming months. How will nonprofits handle the situation if the regulated overtime pay is no longer required? If they have implemented an overtime-pay-for-extra-work model, how do they then undo it without crashing employee morale and inciting the mass exodus of disgruntled employees that could follow? I talked to several nonprofits to see how they have been preparing...

Yesterday, a federal judge blocked President Obama's rule to amend overtime rule regulations, which was set to take effect next Thursday, Dec. 1. U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant agreed with the 21 states and a group of businesses, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that the rule is unlawful, Reuters reported...

The Nov. 8 elections produced some distinct surprises, while also continuing numerous trends seen in recent years across the states. Early pronouncements from incoming and re-elected office-holders suggest that policy decisions will be not only top-down from the federal government, but also bottom-up from localities and spread horizontally from one state to others. Actions by…

Florida’s annual state worker charity drive, which came under fire last year for exorbitant overhead, finished its worst campaign last week in its 36-year history. And once again, the New Jersey company that serves as the campaign’s fiscal agent, Solix Inc., is set to get most of the money. The Florida State Employees’ Charitable Campaign,…

A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs executive who ran a "shameless" veterans' charity will be allowed to retire with full government benefits. Thomas Burch, a career lawyer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, will retire Nov. 30 with a full pension and lifetime health care, a congressional source told CNN. Burch was in the process…

ProPublica doesn’t do partisanship. “We picked on the current administration and briefly on the one before that,” said ProPublica president Richard J. Tofel. “We’ll certainly pick on the next one.” The organization’s self-description says it “shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to…

As America alternately celebrates and copes with the results of the country's most grueling and contentious presidential election since its birth, nonprofits are already looking ahead. Yesterday, we talked immediate reaction to a Donald Trump presidency. Today, we're looking at the numbers. They don't look great...

A few weeks ago I told a friend of mine, jittery about the prospects of a Trump win, to “take an Ambien and call me in November, after you wake up in the second Clinton era.” I mention that because, clearly, my predictions aren’t worth very much. But, hey, the same goes for so many…