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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMERCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW HOLDS A HEARING ON MANDATORY BINDING ARBITRATION
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The EPA is amending specific provisions in the Rule to correct certain technical and editorial errors that have been identified since promulgation and to clarify certain provisions that have been the subject of questions from reporters. These final changes include additional information to clarify compliance obligations, correct data reporting elements so they more closely conform to the information used to perform calculations, and make other corrections and amendments. In addition, these final amendments allow a limited, one-time six month extension of the 2012 reporting deadline for facilities and suppliers that contain one or more source categories for which data collection began in 2011.
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Over the past 20 years, the United States has experienced a profound shift in the way that employment-based retirement benefits are delivered to workers. The traditional life annuity from a defined benefit (DB) plan has been largely replaced by lump sums from defined contribution (DC) plans. Along with investment risk, American workers are bearing a larger share of the longevity risk inherent in all retirement systems. As Americans benefit from longer lives, they are facing a harsh reality: will their retirement assets last long enough? Workers have embraced the flexibility offered by the widely available, and very popular, 401(k) plan. Often described as a do-it-yourself retirement program, these plans have allowed workers to accumulate significant levels of retirement savings. Employe...
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The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, which held that federal law largely trumps states' efforts to limit mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, left consumer advocacy groups wondering if anything can stop companies from drafting all such contracts to bar class actions, a move advocates say will hurt consumers.
Almost immediately, they shifted their focus to a newly created agency that could have the power to limit mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, at least in the financial sector: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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On April 2, 2001, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) implemented the Livestock Mandatory Reporting (LMR) program as required by the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 (1999 Act). In October 2006, the LMR program was reauthorized by Congress through September 2010. On September 28, 2010, the Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 2010 (2010 Reauthorization Act) reauthorized LMR for an additional 5 years and added a provision for mandatory reporting of wholesale pork cuts. The 2010 Reauthorization Act directed the Secretary to engage in negotiated rulemaking to make required regulatory changes for mandatory wholesale pork reporting and establish a negotiated rulemaking committee to develop these changes. This proposed rule reflects the work of the US...
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This final rule adopts changes to Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) regulations as required by section 273(d) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (the Act) as amended by the Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 2010. The amendment to the Act requires the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to establish an electronic reporting system for certain manufacturers of dairy products to report sales information for a mandatory dairy product reporting program. The amendment further states that the Secretary shall publish the information obtained for the preceding week not later than 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday of each week.
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Section 101(c) of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 and 30 CFR Part 44 govern the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for modification. This notice is a summary of petitions for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by the parties listed below to modify the application of existing mandatory safety standards codified in Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
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