by Lander Chamber | Dec 4, 2024 | Advocacy, Business Public Policy, Chamber Blog, Member Support
For the Main Street business community, it looks like Christmas has come early. With less than a month to go before the Corporate Transparency Act’s year-end filing deadline, a federal court today issued a nationwide injunction that halts enforcement of the new...
by Lander Chamber | Nov 27, 2024 | Advocacy, Business Public Policy, Chamber Blog, Government Relations, Member Support
For years, many Lander employers have been struggling to fill their open positions, many of them well-paying, due to a lack of available housing. During this time, the Lander Chamber has been attending Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission meetings, monitoring...
by Lander Chamber | Nov 18, 2024 | Advocacy, Business Public Policy, Chamber Blog, Member Support, NFIB Update
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 15, 2024) – Today’s decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in the case Plano Chamber of Commerce, et al v. DOL is a tremendous win for small businesses. The lawsuit challenged the Department of Labor’s (DOL)...
by Lander Chamber | Oct 30, 2024 | Advocacy, Chamber Blog, Government Relations, Member Support
Despite the many efforts to delay or repeal the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) new rule on Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI), the rule is still in effect. This rule requires an estimated 32 million corporations, LLCs, or similar entities with 20...
by Lander Chamber | Oct 23, 2024 | Advocacy, Chamber Blog, Government Relations, Member Support, NFIB Update
In early May, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a new overtime rule that significantly raises the salary threshold for overtime pay eligibility and will automatically increase the threshold over time. The rule complicates a clear legal exemption for...
by Lander Chamber | Sep 1, 2024 | Advocacy, Chamber Blog, Government Relations, Member Support
Chamber Members Split: Renew or Repeal? Voters across Fremont County first approved a ½-Cent Economic Development Tax in November 2020. In the nearly four years since, a negative perception has grown among approximately half of them (according to a recent Forward...
