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Tonda Rush is general counsel to the National Newspaper Association. Email her at tonda@nna.org
Here are some things you should consider.
On July 1, the new salary threshold for exempt employees went into effect. Now, employees must make at least $844 per week to be considered exempt from overtime pay. In January, the threshold becomes $1,128 ...
Waiting for invoice payments to show up in your mailbox … and waiting … and waiting? There might be a reason for that, and it isn’t because your customers are suddenly slow–payers.
It requires, among other things, anyone sending a letter or postcard asking a consumer to contact the sender “by mail, telephone, email, website or other prescribed means” and offering products ...
What does NNA expect to see from USPS in the next 12 months?
NNA members will want to read about the status of noncompete clauses in employment agreements and new reporting to FinCen.
It is hard to predict right now what further hurdles the Postal Service might throw at newspaper mailers. But it is possible to toss out some good guesses.
Q: Real estate ads are starting to pick up a little. What do we need to watch for?
NNA Press Release — April 1, 2023 Contact: tonda@nna.org National Newspaper Association Supports Journalism Competition and Preservation Act Introduction National Newspaper Association ...
NNA member alert — The U.S. Postal Service has notified its workforce of plans to continue consolidating the carrier workforce ...
The old ways of dealing with USPS are coming to an end
Q: I have spent thousands of dollars building my brand on a Facebook business page. I use it to drive traffic to my website and to sell my publication to customers. Suddenly, without warning, Facebook ...
Q: A reader recently shared a video taken from her car video camera of a breaking news event. What should we be concerned about before we decide to use it?
There have been disputes over the years about whether privacy rights protect the object of your lens if YOU are in public but your subject is not, such as instances where you use a telephoto lens to shoot ...
It is a reasonable assumption that if you are reading this, you are counting on Periodicals mail. Maybe you are relying upon it for 80-100% of your distribution. If that is you, I am worried about ...
Q: A reader sent a letter to the editor on a topic of great controversy in our community. Then, after thinking more about it, the reader told us not to publish. But we have the letter. We have the ...
If experience over the last decade means anything, it will be more than a year before a new idea jells within the USPS management team and gets on the regulatory path to enactment. NNA has requested action ...
The U.S. Postal Service today announced it would hike Periodicals postage rates an average of 8.5% for Periodicals on July 10, 2022, disappointing publishers who expected passage of the Postal Service ...
President Joe Biden today signed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, which implements reforms of federal employee benefit programs and shaves more than $50 billion off the USPS balance sheet. It also ...
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — The National Newspaper Association capped a decade-and-a-half legislative campaign in March when Congress passed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022.