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.
Marine protected areas are a subset of MMAs; MPAs include state marine reserves, state marine parks, and state marine conservation areas. Some MMAs (state marine cultural preservation areas and state marine water quality areas) were not addressed as part of the MLPA process. The following six classifications for designating managed areas in the marine and estuarine environments were established in Public Resources Code, Section 36700.