OSHA’s decision to regulate home workplaces reflects the agency‘s expanding conception of its own mission.

Businesses always are reluctant to make governmental filings about the purpose and terms of their relationships. That’s particularly so when sensitive strategic and legal matters are involved – and when misfiling could result in criminal sanctions.

In a word, unions are not entitled to use retirement funds to raise costs at the companies where the funds are invested. And unionized corporations are not required to permit this. Rather, management trustees and the Labor Department are obligated to prevent it.

Community colleges, businesses, trade associations and others have begun to issue a range of their own credentials to certify when a worker has mastered a valuable expertise. Apprenticeships often fill this need perfectly.

I’ve urged employers to address ergonomics and adopt ergonomics measures.

OSHA was created to regulate jobs that cause injury or illness to workers. Increasingly, though, OSHA sees its purpose as improving the general welfare of working Americans, whether work itself is hazardous or not.

I’ve taken pains to acknowledge that ergonomic pain is real and that ergonomics is valid.

I am not necessarily my clients. I will seek to defend them, to vindicate their rights but that doesn’t mean that I necessarily think that what they did was proper.

Financial regulators should be particularly attentive to the financial consequences of their actions.

Programs funded by the Department of Labor have already opened doors for many Americans to become apprentices, particularly veterans, women and minorities. But government alone cannot equip the American workforce for the jobs of tomorrow. The private sector must lead.

Whistleblowers deserve protection, but employees are not federal agents.

It’s widely recognized that employers and employees need more assistance addressing problems with rising health care costs. Attempts to address the problem are going to require a federal response, not a patchwork of state and local mandates.

The SEC and CFTC are expert agencies blessed with immensely capable professionals. Judges value and defer to that expertise – when it’s exercised to make the hard decisions that Congress entrusts to an agency.

The best thing for workers is work, not unemployment.

ESG investing poses particular concerns under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or Erisa, the federal law governing private retirement plans.

Despite its heightened duty, at times the SEC has been inattentive to economic analysis.

Apprenticeship is a proven model for developing a skilled workforce.

Whenever you‘re going into oral argument, it’s preferable to be able to weave the arguments together. That gets harder when you split the argument into pieces.

Running a business and need more skilled workers? If you’re not considering apprenticeships, then you’re behind the curve.

The most important thing to me as a practitioner has been fidelity to my obligations and to the law.

For a lawyer to shade or slant his legal advice to advance a private agenda is among the gravest betrayals of his solemn duty as an attorney.

The USMCA ushers in a new era for trade policy. Between labor protections and support for the American automobile industry, it places our manufacturers at the center of a blue collar comeback.