The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) fiscal year (FY) 2026 congressional budget justification suggested significant headcount reductions over the next two years and a corresponding reduction in...more
Senate confirmation of David Keeling, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, began on June 6, 2025. The testimony, given during the first week of his...more
On June 5, 2025, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce regarding the Trump administration’s proposed fiscal year 2026 budget....more
6/18/2025
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Workplace Safety
On June 2, 2025, Deputy Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling announced a renewed and expanded commitment by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to the issuance of interpretation letters—commonly referred to as opinion letters...more
U.S. Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ) first introduced the “Nullify the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act” or “NOSHA Act” in November 2021, legislation aimed at abolishing the Occupational Safety and Health...more
2/20/2025
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Workplace Safety
In May 2023, in the wake of a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States that U.S. district courts have jurisdiction to consider structural constitutional claims against administrative agencies, we predicted that the...more
11/8/2024
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SEC v Jarkesy ,
Take Care Clause
On May 2, 2024, Senators Ed Markey (D-MA), Bob Casey (D-PA), Tina Smith (D-MN), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, legislation that would limit production requirements for warehouse...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced new efforts to “combat exploitative child labor,” which is largely the result of “an influx in migrant children from...more
On February 13, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Doug Parker had signed a...more
This year, as has been the case the past six years, January brings two items from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) that almost all employers will want to keep in mind. One is an adjustment to the...more
On September 9, 2015, then U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates issued a memo, “Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing,” that sent shivers down the spines of those in the workplace safety community....more
11/18/2022
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Monaco Memo ,
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Workplace Safety ,
Yates Memorandum