OSHA is finalizing its rule to “clarify” key elements of the 2017 general-industry exposure standards for beryllium including a new definition of “work areas” that won support from unions as a way to ease compliance with the standards and thus bolster worker protections, even as litigation over the underlying policy continues.

Labor unions say the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) rule allowing swine slaughterhouses to raise line-speed limits regardless of worker safety impacts must be vacated, citing a recent Supreme Court decision they say shows that the agency’s refusal to consider safety data in the rulemaking is too fundamental a flaw to fix on remand.

Labor unions say the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) rule allowing swine slaughterhouses to raise line-speed limits regardless of worker safety impacts must be vacated, citing a recent Supreme Court decision they say shows that the agency’s refusal to consider safety data in the rulemaking is too fundamental a flaw to fix on remand.

Amazon.com employees say a federal district court can hear their suit seeking COVID-19 employee safeguards at a New York warehouse despite OSHA’s general authority over workplace safety, arguing that the agency’s “minimal steps” to address the pandemic give courts more room to act.

Amazon.com employees say a federal district court can hear their suit seeking COVID-19 employee safeguards at a New York warehouse despite OSHA’s general authority over workplace safety, arguing that the agency’s “minimal steps” to address the pandemic give courts more room to act.

Amazon.com employees say a federal district court can hear their suit seeking COVID-19 employee safeguards at a New York warehouse despite OSHA’s general authority over workplace safety, arguing that the agency’s “minimal steps” to address the pandemic give courts more room to act.

Amazon.com is asking a federal district court to reject a suit over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as an infringement on OSHA’s “primary jurisdiction” over workplace safety issues, arguing that allowing lawsuits to enforce state-level coronavirus policies would create “an inconsistent patchwork” of contradictory judicial orders.

Amazon.com is asking a federal district court to reject a suit over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as an infringement on OSHA’s “primary jurisdiction” over workplace safety issues, arguing that allowing lawsuits to enforce state-level coronavirus policies would create “an inconsistent patchwork” of contradictory judicial orders.

Amazon.com is asking a federal district court to reject a suit over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as an infringement on OSHA’s “primary jurisdiction” over workplace safety issues, arguing that allowing lawsuits to enforce state-level coronavirus policies would create “an inconsistent patchwork” of contradictory judicial orders.

House Democrats’ fiscal year 2021 funding bill for the Department of Labor would boost OSHA’s budget by $12 million from current levels, rejecting President Donald Trump’s requested cuts while maintaining a training grant program that the administration is seeking to end despite OSHA touting the grants as “success stories.”