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Showing posts with label OSHA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OSHA. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

OSHA wants to let union reps into your non-union facility

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If OSHA gets its way, you might have to start opening the doors of your business to union reps during the agency's safety inspections. P...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Federal agencies need to stay in their lanes

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National Labor Relations Board and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announce new partnership to address employer surveillance, monitorin...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

You won’t like OSHA when it’s angry

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OSHA has proposed nearly $1.25 million in penalties against two Ohio Dollar Tree stores.  The specific violations cited include hazards rela...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Unlike ordering at Chick-Fil-A, legal compliance isn’t chosen from a menu.

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"We are looking for volunteers for our new Drive Thru Express!🚘 Earn 5 free entrees per shift (1 hr) worked. Message us for details&q...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Coronavirus Update 1-26-22: OSHA doesn’t need an ETS to go after your business’s Covid-safety deficiencies

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With the Supreme Court effectively killing OSHA Covid-19 vax-or-test Emergency Temporary Standard, and OSHA now officially withdrawing it,...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Coronavirus Update 12-20-21: OSHA’s “vax or test" mandate is back on … for now

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OSHA is gratified the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dissolved the Fifth Circuit’s stay of the Vaccination and Testing Emergenc...
Friday, December 17, 2021

BREAKING NEWS: 6th Circuit dissolves stay and re-starts OSHA’s vax-or-test emergency standard

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In a 2-1 decision, the 6th Circuit has dissolved the 5th Circuit’s prior stay of the OSHA vax-or-test emergency temporary standard. The opin...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Tragic workplace emergency safety lessons from a candle factory

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Thus far, eight employees have tragically died inside the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory from the tornado that tore through Mayfi...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Coronavirus Update 11-17-2021: OSHA’s vax-or-test emergency standard is on life support

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Yesterday brought two huge developments in the battle over OSHA's vaccine-or-test emergency temporary standard.   First, the conservativ...
Saturday, November 13, 2021

BREAKING NEWS: 5th Circuit issues new order continuing its stay of the OSHA vaccine-or-test ETS

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In a 22-page opinion issued last night that I can only describe as a scathing rebuke of OSHA's vaccine-or-test emergency temporary stan...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

BREAKING NEWS: OSHA publishes its vaccine-mandate emergency temporary standard

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Write down November 4, 2021, as the Employment Lawyer Superbowl. At 8:45 am this morning, OSHA published its Covid-19 Vaccination and Testin...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Coronavirus Update 10-27-2021: No, employers, you can’t fire employees who complain about Covid health and safety issues

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An employee sends this email to all of his coworkers: "It has come to my attention that an employee has tested positive for COVID-19. I...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Coronavirus Update 10-14-2021: We still don’t know what OSHA’s vaccine standard says … but we’re getting closer

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Late Tuesday, news broke that OSHA had submitted in vaccine mandate Emergency Temporary Standard to the White House’s Office of Informatio...
Friday, June 11, 2021

Coronavirus Update 6-11-2021: OSHA’s long-awaited COVID-19 safety rule is a big bowl of … meh

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Today is the 15-month anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. All that employers have asked of OSHA during the past year and a quarter is some...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Coronavirus Update 6-8-2021: OSHA updates employers of N95 use

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OSHA recently provided employers an update on the proper use of N95 masks, including a new video , poster (in English and Spanish ), and FA...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

What employers can expect from Biden’s presidency: A temporary emergency OSHA standard for COVID-19

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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the identification of the first COVID-19 case in the United States. On January 20, 2020, the State o...
Thursday, November 5, 2020

Coronavirus Update 11-5-2020: OSHA levies $2 million in COVID-related citations and penalties

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Are you tired of the endless din of vote counts and election news? Let's get back to the uplifting topic of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemi...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Coronavirus Update 8-19-2020: Government watchdog says OSHA whistleblower claims up, investigations down during pandemic

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According to a report released yesterday by the Office of Inspector General, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, OSHA has been floode...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Does the ADA protect employees who travel to areas that potentially expose them to coronavirus?

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Coronavirus  is 2020’s pandemic du jour. It’s a serious, and potentially deadly, respiratory virus that (likely) started in Wuhan, China, ...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

OSHA publishes new guidance on distracted driving

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The reaction time of someone texting while driving is 35 percent worse than someone driving without any distractions. Compare that figure ...