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What Mine Operators Should Know About Legal Challenges to OSHA’s Vaccine ETS – And What to Do if it Survives

Mine operators may not be among the employers that will be impacted by OSHA’s mandate-or-test Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), but questions abound in the mining community about the state of the emergency rule and whether...more

Should Mine Operators Expect A COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard?

Within the first days of taking office, President Biden signed many Executive Orders – one of which directs the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to...more

NLRB Issues Two More COVID-19 Advice Memos On Remote Bargaining And Hazard Pay

The NLRB recently issued a pair of advice memos governing the obligation of parties to engage in remote collective bargaining and to negotiate over the concept of hazard pay in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. These...more

Top 3 Mine Safety Changes To Expect Under The Biden Administration

With Joe Biden now being called the president-elect, we can expect changes to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) once he takes office in January 2021. Right now, while there is speculation as to who will be the...more

Cal/OSHA Increasing COVID-19 Enforcement Activities – What Should Employers Do To Prepare?

Cal/OSHA recently cited 11 employers in the food processing, meatpacking, health care, agriculture, and retail industries for not protecting employees from potential exposure to COVID-19. The state safety enforcement agency...more

New Mine Safety Bill Introduced to Force MSHA Action on COVID-19

A group of U.S. Senators have joined the United Mine Workers of America call for MSHA action by introducing a new mine safety bill. The proposed Mine Worker Protection Act – which would require the agency to issue an...more

What Mine Operators Can Expect after the Pandemic: MSHA Will Soon Push Its Regulatory Agenda

As the country begins to reopen, many mine operators are contemplating next steps for their own operations. One certainty is that the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) will continue to enforce the provisions of the...more

“The Sound of Silence” – What Mine Operators Should Expect From MSHA During Pandemic

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, most mine operators have been waiting for MSHA to release some health and safety guidance regarding the outbreak and how to safeguard the safety and health of their miners. After a...more

Taking the Fight to Coronavirus: What Mine Operators Need to Know about HazCom

With fear of the COVID-19 coronavirus gripping the nation, many employers – including mine operators large and small – are trying to keep their workforce safe and their businesses running as smoothly as possible... But along...more

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