On April 1, 2024, a new final rule was published which significantly revises OSHA’s longstanding regulations regarding an employee’s right to choose a representative to accompany parties during an OSHA’s onsite inspection and increases the likelihood of union access to non-union workplaces.
As outlined in Section 8 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, employees
On January 1, 2024, a new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) Rule took effect: the Final Rule to Improve Tracking. OSHA has long required employers to track and maintain records regarding workplace injuries and illnesses. Since 2016, OSHA has implemented (under multiple Presidential Administrations) varying rules regarding electronic submission of Forms 300, 300A
On May 1, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) announced its second National Emphasis Program (“NEP”) in three months, this time addressing the leading cause of fatal workplace injuries and the most frequently cited health and safety standard during construction industry inspections: falls.
According to a statement released by Assistant Secretary for OSHA
On January 26, 2023, OSHA issued two enforcement memoranda accompanied by a clear message to employers from Assistant Secretary for OSHA Doug Parker: employers who “choose to put profits before their employees’ safety, health and wellbeing” will be targeted. Aggressively.
OSHA’s first memorandum revises and significantly expands its seldom used instance-by-instance (“IBI”) policy. The decision
What is OSHA’s top post-COVID enforcement priority? According to Assistant Secretary of Labor and the head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), Doug Parker, it’s heat-related illnesses. On April 8, 2022, OSHA released its National Emphasis Program (“NEP”) for heat related issues in the workplace.
Before becoming head of federal OSHA enforcement,
Even though the calendar has not even turned to February, we already have seen major updates on the federal government’s COVID-19 rules and guidance. This past week proved no different. On Friday, January 21, 2022, a Texas federal judge blocked, on a nationwide basis, President Biden’s executive order mandating that federal workers get a COVID-19
The United States Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) issued its decisions on the Biden Administration’s testing and vaccination mandates earlier today. The court was divided in both cases. The court ruled 6-3 in blocking the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (“OSHA”) Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) which required that employers with 100 or more employees require employees to
Did the federal government overreach when it issued emergency rules forcing employers to impose vaccine mandates? The United States Supreme Court will take up that important question today when it examines emergency COVID-19 vaccine rules issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The Supreme Court
Over the weekend, in a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit lifted the stay of OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) regarding mandatory employee vaccination or testing requirements. The ETS was originally issued on November 5, 2021 but was stayed by the Fifth Circuit on November 6, 2021.
In its decision to lift the stay, the Sixth
As we all know by now, on November 5, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to protect workers in businesses with more than 100 employees from the Coronavirus, and on November 6, 2021, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed enforcement of the ETS. B.S.T. Holdings, LLC,