LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
New initiatives bolster whistleblower program and challenge commonly used safety incentive programs; employers should reevaluate their programs and be prepared for extensive investigations.
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
On March 25, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published in the Federal Register its long-awaited final regulations and accompanying Interpretive Guidance under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments A... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
On June 29, House and Senate Democrats released a summary and new discussion draft of the Miner Safety and Health Act of 2010 (MSHA legislation). In addition to expected major mine safety reforms, the discussion draft incorpora... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
Last year, as part of a department-wide initiative to sharpen the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL's) focus on "indifferent" repeat-offense employers, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced that the Occupational Safety and Heal... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently sent letters to approximately 15,000 employers, notifying them that OSHA's data shows that their worksites reported among the highest Days Away, Restricted, and T... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a fact sheet on November 17 providing crowd-control guidelines for retailers to protect workers during major sales events, like Black Friday. While compliance wi... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Environmental LawFlash
Environmental Practice
On September 25, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new guidance for school administrators and building managers with recommendations for managing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in caulk and information to hel... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
On September 30, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) published the first major proposed rulemaking of the Obama administration-the long-awaited comprehensive changes to the Hazard Communication Standard, 29 ... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
As work on projects funded in whole or in part by stimulus money continues to increase, employers should be aware of extraordinarily broad whistleblower provisions contained in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
The Obama administration has chosen leaders for two key agencies at the Department of Labor (DOL). First, President Obama has chosen Professor David Michaels to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Hea... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
The World Health Organization (WHO) today raised its pandemic alert level to its highest level, Phase 6, the pandemic phase, in response to the ongoing global spread of the H1N1 virus. The increased alert level relates only to ... more
Presentation | Webinar
Nina Stillman, Jonathan Snare, Andy Anderson
This 90-minute webinar took an in-depth look into how employers can deal with the emergent issues and immediate questions that arise from the swine flu epidemic within the workforce. It also focused on creating long-term emergenc... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
The reality of swine flu has now reached the American workplace, and employers are struggling to implement responses that protect their healthy employees, guard the privacy of stricken employees, and comply with applicable natio... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
In decision released on February 26, Secretary of Labor v. Summit Contractors , No. 07-2191 (8th Cir., Feb. 25, 2009), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated and remanded the Occupational Safety and Health Re... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
On Friday, December 12, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the Department of Labor (DOL) issued its final regulations clarifying that employers must provide personal protective equipment (PPE) and hazar... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment
On November 2, 2007, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released Appendix A of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (Appendix A). Appendix A is the final part of the March 2007 comprehensive federal security re... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the Department of Labor has issued its final regulations requiring employers to pay for their employees’ personal protective equipment (PPE). These regulations e... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment
On April 2, 2007, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a new Ergonomic Hazard Alert FollowUp Policy (the Policy) as a directive to regional and area offices. This is OSHA’s newest attempt in a 20year ... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment
On March 14, 2007, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sent letters to 14,201 employers notifying them that its 2005 Data Initiative (which collected injury and illness data for calendar year 2005) showed th... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Employee Benefits
On April 15, 2002, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") announced its Site Specific Targeting 2002 ("SST-2002") Program. Under the Program OSHA will inspect 3000 worksites that reported high injury and ill... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Employee Benefits
On February 25, 2002, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") sent letters to over 13,000 employers notifying them that its 2001 Data Initiative (collecting data for calendar year 2000) showed that they had th... more