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New OSHA rule expands injury reports, creates public database
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a final rule intended to modernize injury data collection and create “the largest publicly available data set” on work injuries and illnesses. Joe Mont reports.
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New DoL Guidance Has Chilling Effect on Third-Party Relationships
Does your company use sub-contractors or have franchisees? Ever put a vendor compliance program in place? If so, new guidance from the Department of Labor is about to make life more complicated. It broadens how joint employer relationships—where two or more companies cooperatively employ workers—will be defined and applied under ...
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OSHA Seeks Comments on Whistleblower Guidance for Employers
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is seeking public comments on a draft document intended to provide guidance to employers on preventing retaliation against whistleblowers. Comments are due Jan. 19, 2016.
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OSHA Enforcement Trends to Watch in 2016
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is raising the stakes for companies that fail to provide safe workplaces. One development affecting CCOs in the coming year would dramatically increase penalties and emphasize who qualifies as an “employer.” “Every employer should be terrified of OSHA right now,” says Valerie Butera of ...
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The Latest State of Affairs on Whistleblower Claims
Image: A final rule from OSHA has smoothed the path for employees to file whistleblower retaliation claims under the Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank acts and put companies in a more difficult spot to defend themselves. “The final rule reinforces that these types of anti-retaliation provisions are here to stay,” says Daniel ...
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OSHA Gives Whistleblowers More Time to Report Retaliation
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a final rule that clarifies its procedures for handling whistleblower retaliation complaints. It gives aggrieved employees an extra 90 days to file allegations and allows those complaints to be made orally, not just in writing.
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OSHA Begins New Reporting Requirements
A reminder from the Department of Labor: As of New Year’s Day, employers have new reporting requirements when a workplace injury occurs. A rule adopted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires businesses to report work-related fatalities within eight hours, and work-related hospitalizations and amputations within 24 hours.
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