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Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released their new Certification of Pesticide Applicator rules to the public.The regulation sets the minimum standards for the application of restricted use pesticides in all 50 states.Ā However, nothing prevents states from adopting regulations that are more restrictive than the Federal guidelines.Ā As a result, there is significant variance in […]
Louisiana State University is Currently in First Place in the NALP-PAC Challenge! This football season, weāre providing NALP members with an opportunity to not only advance the interests of landscape professionalsĀ but to support their school of choice with our Alumni Challenge, a head-to-head competition to see which schoolsā alumni and fans can raise the most […]
Laurie Flannigan, of DCLRS, NALP’s government relations firm, boils down the potential impact of the election on our advocacy efforts on behalf of the industry.Ā As you are most certainly aware, as a result of the Nov. 8 election, Donald Trump will be Americaās 45thĀ President and Republicans have retained control of both the House and […]
On October 17, 2016, the Department of Labor Wage & Hour Division (DOL) in partnership with the Small Business Office of Advocacy presented a webinar entitled, āPreparing for the Overtime Final Rule.ā DOL provided a briefing and a Questions & Answers session regarding the agencyās final rule that makes changes to the Fair Labor Standards […]
This Fall, we’re providing NALP members with an opportunity to not only advance the interests of landscape professionalsĀ but to support their school of choice in a football season long head-to-head competition to see which schoolsā alumni and fans can raise the most for NALP-PAC, the National Association of Landscape Professionalās Political Action Committee. As a […]
As a member of the Partnership to Protect Workplace Opportunity, NALP is working with a broad coalition of organizations and other business interest entities to seek a more common sense way to implement the Department of LaborāsĀ (DOL) new overtime rules. Recently, we joined with over 400 other stakeholders to send a letter to Congress […]
The following article, written by VP of Government Relations, Paul Mendelsohn, ran in Landscape & Irrigation Magazine’s October 2016 issue. Members of the landscape industry are faced with a new threat from an unexpected direction in the form of a model standard for the sustainable construction of commercial buildings developed by the American Society of […]
As the result of a recent request from NALP, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services department (USCIS) issued the following recommendations for landscape professionals and other employers regarding requests for returning workers for 2017. H-2B Employers Should Continue to Identify āReturning Workersā in Petitions for FY 2017. USCIS urges prospective H-2B employers seeking to […]
Prior to the August recess, the House Appropriations Committee passed its version of the fiscal 2017 Department of Homeland Appropriations bill, which would renew the H-2B returning worker exemption for another year. The Senate Appropriations Committee passed its version of the Department of Labor Appropriations bill that would extend the H-2B regulatory relief for another […]
Last week, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton announced his signing of an executive order placing some restrictions on neonicotinoid (neonics) use.Ā The governorās action makes Minnesota the most stringent state in the nation when it comes to neonic use. The executive order directs the Department of Agriculture to: ā¢ Require a “verification of need” prior to the […]
