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Consumers, Business Owners React to Tax Code Overhaul
In the final days of 2017, Congress approved a landmark bill to overhaul the country’s tax code. “The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (H.R. 1), a comprise bill between House and Senate versions, repr... Read more
Congress approved, H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, this week, marking the first time in 30 years since the tax code has been overhauled. The final bill is a compromise between the House a... Read more
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a ruling that overturned Specialty Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center of Mobile (“Specialty Healthcare”), an Obama-era Board d... Read more
As noted in the December 8, 2017 Week in Review, most commercial truckers as of December 18, 2017, including those in the floral industry, are required to use electronic logging devices (ELD... Read more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced this week it is seeking input from the public about possible changes to the Obama-era union labor policies. In 2014, the NLRB finalized a... Read more
SAF recently submitted comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Human Health Risk Assessment for pyrethrins, a class of active ingredients found in pesticides used to contro... Read more
House and Senate Take Different Paths to Tax Reform
The Senate and the House are both moving forward with efforts to overhaul the country’s tax code, but the two houses are taking different approaches. The Senate Finance Committee and the Hou... Read more
As the House of Representatives presses forward on tax reform, questions about how new legislation will affect small businesses continue to be a central part of the debate. The Tax Cut and J... Read more
A late summer and early fall that read like something out of a science fiction movie — hurricanes, volcanoes, grounded planes, backlogged ports — has created new challenges for the floral in... Read more
Now that Congress has again failed to repeal or replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have turned their attention to reforming the nation’... Read more