President Obama has signed an executive order that requires federal contractors to offer their employees up to seven days of paid sick leave per year.he executive order does not affect private sector workers, NPR's Mara Liasson reports for our Newscast unit, adding, 42 percent of them do not have paid sick leave..
The Draft Proposed Program (DPP) includes 47 potential lease sales in 25 of the 26 planning areas â 19 sales off the coast of Alaska, 7 in the Pacific Region, 12 in the Gulf of Mexico, and 9 in the Atlantic Region. This is the largest number of lease sales ever proposed for the National OCS Programâs 5-year lease schedule.
JOINT INTEREST AREAS. Joint Interest Areas, a/k/a JIAs, are public parks, waterways, major governmental installations and similar land uses which are not located within bounding community districts. Examples are Central Park, Van Cortlandt Park, LaGuardia and JFK Airports. Each JIA has a number, like a community district.