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.
FAQs: Resource Protection Areas. What are Resource Protection Areas? Resource Protection Areas (RPAs) are the corridors of environmentally sensitive land that lie alongside or near the shorelines of streams, rivers and other waterways which drain into the Potomac River and eventually into the Chesapeake Bay.