In the wake of the devastating Los Angeles County fires, California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) officials are emphasizing in new guidance that domestic workers are covered by agency labor code rules governing fire debris removal if they are helping to clean up properties impacted by the fire damage.
Legal experts are urging companies to ensure their nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) comply with a key federal whistleblower protection law, warning that failure to do so could result in additional charges or penalties in federal antitrust cases.
Representatives of several community and employee-safety organizations are pressing California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) to bolster standards and enforcement of rules to protect dairy and poultry workers from the bird flu strains that are spreading in the state.
A tissue paper manufacturer is appealing to the 6th Circuit a ruling by an administrative law judge (ALJ) that upheld findings of workplace safety violations and monetary penalties following a 2022 accident at the company’s Ohio facility.
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has rescinded its controversial memo seeking to freeze a wide array of OSHA and other federal funds to review their consistency with Trump administration priorities after a federal judge temporarily stayed the measure.
The Trump administration is delaying the effective date of the Biden EPA’s TSCA rule banning many uses of the industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) after two federal courts temporarily stalled the rule’s original Jan. 16 effective date, subjecting the rule to provisions of President Donald Trump’s order freezing pending regulations for review.
For the first time, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has publicly released detailed results of its recent investigations into 26 serious chemical incidents at major industrial facilities, a move that one industry law firm says “creates significantly increased legal and operational risks that require immediate strategic attention.”
Ahead of a key advisory committee meeting, employer and industry groups are stepping up complaints that California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) officials are inappropriately proposing to add a plethora of new requirements to an existing workplace violence-prevention standard, though agency staff maintain they are properly carrying out the law that required the rules.
Studies conducted for the Agriculture Department (USDA) have found only a limited association between faster slaughterhouse line speeds and increased worker injuries, prompting USDA to extend current line speed waivers until the Trump administration can decide next steps.
Studies conducted for the Agriculture Department (USDA) have found only a limited association between faster slaughterhouse line speeds and increased worker injuries, prompting USDA to extend current line speed waivers until the Trump administration can decide next steps.