Posts tagged permanent employees
100 State Leaders Urge Washington to Protect Independent Work
May 8, 2026 // That is why State Policy Network’s Center for Practical Federalism helped organize a coalition of 100 state leaders from 25 states in support of the US Department of Labor’s proposed rule clarifying independent contractor status under federal law. The coalition includes four statewide officials and 96 state legislators. The proposed rule would rescind the Biden administration’s 2024 independent contractor rule and replace it with a clearer standard for determining when a worker is an employee and when a worker may be classified as an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act.
Ford workers told their CEO ‘none of the young people want to work here.’ So Jim Farley took a page out of the founder’s playbook
November 30, 2025 // “He said, ‘I’m doing this because I want my factory worker to buy my cars. If they make enough money, they’ll buy my own product,’” Farley said. “It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, in a way.”
GM Laying Off Hundreds Of Part-Time Temps At Two US Plants
October 2, 2024 // The vast majority of them are stationed at Fort Wayne Assembly in Indiana where the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra are built. This site employs roughly 4,000 people across three shifts, and of these employees, approximately 250 are part-time temporary workers. The remaining part-time temporary workers losing their jobs are at the Bowling Green site, which produces the Chevrolet Corvette and employs 1,458 people.