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Furloughed federal workers are not guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the ongoing shutdown, according to a draft White House memo that reinterprets a 2019 back-pay law, Axios reported, raising new uncertainty for hundreds of thousands of employees. New OMB Memo Challenges 2019...

Major changes to federal hours-of-service (HOS) regulations have been sent to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for final review after two years of revisions and thousands of public comments. Jim Mullen, Acting Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (...

A White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) spokesman has confirmed that widely anticipated proposed changes to driver hours-of-service (HOS) regulations are still under review at OMB. The rulemaking proposal, which Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) chief Ray Martinez had...

In early June, the Trump administration announced the federal government would stop preparing for the Y2K bug, a computing glitch that would prevent computers from processing the date correctly at the turn of the millennium. Y2K was over 17 years ago. Not much really happened. Throughout those 17...