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The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is a United States federal agency established in 1970 by the Occupational Health and Safety Act. OSHA is part of the Department of Labor and is charged with assuring healthy, safe, working environments. OSHA sets and enforces safety standards and policies. Examples of OSHA's duties include setting limits on workers' exposure to hazardous substances, ensuring workers have access to safety information and protective equipment, and providing employers and workers proper training to prevent dangerous conditions. less -

SuperVision - Labor and Employment Law Insights, Issue 1, March 2025

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 3/4/2025

Welcome to our first issue of SuperVision in 2025. In this edition, we cover the new presidential administration’s anticipated impact on employment agreements, the National Labor Relations Board, and workplace safety...more

Employment Law Now VIII-155 - The Trump 2.0 Impact on Labor and Employment Law

Cozen O'Connor on 11/27/2024

For this Thanksgiving week episode, Michael Schmidt is joined by several Cozen O'Connor colleagues to discuss the likely impact of President Trump's second administration on such L&E issues as federal agency regulation and...more

100 Days of the Biden Administration, Part II: Key Labor and Employment Policy Developments

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 5/21/2021

In its first 100 days in office, the Biden administration has advanced its policy priorities, many of which have involved repealing the policy accomplishments of the previous presidential administration. The Biden...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - May 2021 #2

WilmerHale on 5/14/2021

As part of its ongoing investigation into the Federal Reserve’s administration of pandemic relief lending programs, House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chair James E. Clyburn sent a letter to Fed Chair Jerome...more

Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines - July 2020 #11

Hogan Lovells on 7/16/2020

In Washington - After receiving backlash for quietly removing public data on COVID-19 hospitalizations from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website last night, the Department of Health and Human...more

Seyfarth Policy Matters Newsletter - May 2020 #2

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/22/2020

An Exercise in Listening: Bipartisan Effort to Revamp the PPP. As we have noted here, here, and here, the PPP is simultaneously the most used and the most contentious provision in the CARES Act. ...more

Beltway Buzz - January 2019 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/14/2019

Shutdown Stalemate. Today marks day 21 of the partial federal government shutdown. Assuming that no deal is struck today, by tomorrow the shutdown will be the longest in our nation’s history....more

Top 50 Workplace Law Stories Of 2018

Fisher Phillips on 12/12/2018

It’s hard to keep up with the news these days. It sometimes feels like you can’t step away from your phone, computer, or TV for more than an hour or so without a barrage of new information hitting the headlines—and you’re...more

Web Exclusive: February 2018: The Top 15 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 3/14/2018

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there were an unprecedented number of changes all through 2017. And if the first two months...more

Your Comprehensive Guide to 2018 Proposed California Legislation

Fisher Phillips on 2/28/2018

February 16 was the deadline to introduce new bills in the California Legislature. By that date, nearly 2,200 bills were introduced. While that may seem like a staggering amount of legislative proposals (especially for a...more

WPI Insider Briefing – A Taxing Year Races to the Finish Line

Littler on 11/28/2017

As the Thanksgiving holiday approached, Republican lawmakers in both chambers of Congress made progress toward their singular legislative priority to enact comprehensive tax reform. Facing uncertainty in the 2018 midterm...more

May 2017: The Top 10 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 6/5/2017

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While it always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, the last few months have seen an unprecedented number of changes. May 2017 was no different, with...more

Congress has Voted to Kill OSHA’s “Volks Rule – So What Does that Really Mean?

Fisher Phillips on 3/25/2017

If one listens to various Democrat and labor talking heads, you would think that Congress has rolled back 40 years of worker protections by passing a resolution killing the new OSHA rule, which permitted OSHA to cite...more

Signs that OSHA Priorities are Shifting Under the Trump Administration?

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/22/2017

There are new developments related to OSHA’s Electronic Recordkeeping Rule and the Volks Rule. As a reminder, the Electronic Recordkeeping Rule requires certain employers to electronically file their OSHA recordkeeping data...more

Plan to Trump Obama Administration Regulations of Employers Already Underway

Poyner Spruill LLP on 2/14/2017

As the 115th Congress begins its term, certain regulations that went into effect during the Obama Administration are under fire due to an obscure rule. Congress passed the Congressional Review Act (CRA) in 1996 to block...more

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