The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) today issued its final rule altering the overtime regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The rule includes two-tiered increases to the minimum salary threshold and the threshold for highly compensated employees (HCEs) as well as automatic updates to both thresholds moving forward.
TRSA recently hosted the CEOs and Executives of the industry’s largest companies in Washington, DC, following TRSA’s 14th Annual Legislative Conference. The meeting facilitated information sharing among leaders of the industry’s largest organizations. Representing both public and privately held companies, this group discussed macroeconomic impacts on their businesses and shared insights into trends, pressure points and opportunities in the industry.
TRSA recently hosted its 14th Annual Legislative Conference & Industry Awards Dinner in Washington, DC. The conference was bookended by a Supplier Partner Workshop on the front end and Annual Hill Day meetings between industry executives and key congressional representatives to close the conference.
TRSA kicked off the 14th Annual Legislative Conference with a workshop designed for supplier partners on April 9 at the Madison Hotel in Washington, DC. Ben Kniffen, CEO of LinkedSelling, led the session with over 50 attendees and offered skills and tools that enable placing the right message in front of the right person through the right channels, and how to develop a sales process that ties everything together.
Evidence abounded on April 11 that advocacy has strengthened TRSA’s efforts to facilitate greater use of reusable healthcare PPE garments and to open our industry’s access to federal funding for PFAS pretreatment. TRSA members visiting Capitol Hill emerged from their 118 meetings in congressional offices confident that their collective dialogue resonated with policymakers.
The New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board approved a congestion-pricing plan in an 11-1 vote on March 27 that could dramatically hike the costs of commercial vehicles delivering textiles and other goods into a high-traffic area of Manhattan.
UniFirst’s Owensboro, KY, distribution center is the Gold level honoree of the 2024 SafeTRSA Safety Excellence Award. The 400-team-partner staff, building on their history of state and federal recognition, has been hailed for moving forward with an “unwavering commitment” to continuous improvement. The 360,000-square-foot distribution and fulfillment space is one of the area’s largest employers.
As noted in Textile Services Weekly on March 11, Shasta Linen Supply Inc., Sacramento, CA, recently acquired five electric step vans worth roughly $1 million. This change moved Shasta Linen into compliance with California’s pending commercial-vehicle regulations. It also put the company in the vanguard of independents that have embraced alt-fuel route vehicles.
On March 8, Judge J. Campbell Barker of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas invalidated the joint-employer rule issued in October 2023 by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). District Judge Barker deemed the rule too broad and in violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
On March 7, the Partnership to Protect Workplace Opportunity (PPWO) along with 84 employer organizations, including TRSA, sent a letter to Congress urging support of the Overtime Pay Flexibility Act (H.R. 7367), which would prohibit the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) from finalizing, implementing or enforcing its proposed overtime pay rulemaking.
