OSHA has finalized a direct final rule (DFR) limiting the reach of ancillary provisions of the Obama-era rule updating the agency's beryllium standards for general industry after receiving no significant adverse comments on the rule issued in May.
House and Senate Democrats have introduced a bill strengthening public employees' right to organize and bargain collectively, pushing back against the Supreme Court's ruling late last month blocking public-sector labor unions from compelling dues, which labor groups and others fear will curtail unions' lobbying for stricter workplace safety and other rules.
The Senate has unanimously approved compromise legislation that would reauthorize EPA's authority to collect industry fees to support timely pesticide reviews, in exchange for preserving for three years two Obama-era rules aimed at protecting farmworkers from exposure to pesticides that the Trump administration had moved to roll back.
Employers are facing a July 1 deadline for submitting to OSHA 2017 data summarizing their workers' injuries and illnesses under an Obama-era electronic reporting rule that has faced significant implementation hurdles, and that the Trump administration has already moved to revise.
Brushing aside Trump administration's requests to cut worker safety programs, Senate appropriators have approved legislation boosting funding for OSHA and other agencies in fiscal year 2019, while also instructing the agency to resume its practice of posting fatality information on its website as it had done under the Obama administration.
Brushing aside Trump administration's requests to cut worker safety programs, Senate appropriators have approved legislation boosting funding for OSHA and other agencies in fiscal year 2019, while also instructing the agency to resume its practice of posting fatality information on its website as it had done under the Obama administration.
Democrats and labor union officials are concerned that the Supreme Court's ruling that public sector workers cannot be required to pay labor dues -- even if they benefit from any contract -- could undercut workplace safety, arguing that the ruling would curtail unions' power and their insistence on safety and other requirements.
Democrats and labor union officials are concerned that the Supreme Court's ruling that public sector workers cannot be required to pay labor dues -- even if they benefit from any contract -- could undercut workplace safety, arguing that the ruling would curtail unions' power and their insistence on safety and other requirements.
Senate appropriators are seeking a $4 million funding increase for OSHA in fiscal year 2019, while also preserving a workplace safety training program, a Senate source says, plans that are at odds with provisions in a companion House bill, which GOP leaders stalled amid continuing controversy over the Trump administration's immigration policies.
Senate appropriators are seeking a $4 million funding increase for OSHA in fiscal year 2019, while also preserving a workplace safety training program, a Senate source says, plans that are at odds with provisions in a companion House bill, which GOP leaders stalled amid continuing controversy over the Trump administration's immigration policies.