#WorkforceWednesday: OSHA Issues COVID-19 Citations, Michigan Enacts Liability Shield, and States Battle for Telecommuter Taxes - Employment Law This Week®
Last month, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued updated guidance on penalty and debt collection procedures. According to OSHA, the policy revisions are intended to assist small businesses with...more
Effective January 2025, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) hiked the maximum fines for workplace safety violations. As an example, the maximum fine for a “serious” violation is now $16,550 per violation,...more
Employers will face higher penalties for workplace safety violations in 2025 now that the U.S. Department of Labor has just published its listing of annual increases. These yearly increases to OSHA’s maximum civil penalties...more
Ohio employers have a duty to provide their employees with a workplace that is free from known dangers that could harm employees. Unfortunately, injuries can and do happen, even in safe workplaces....more
OSHA penalties increased for citations issued in 2024 Consistent with the 2015 Inflation Adjustment Act, which provides for the annual increase in penalties under the Occupational Safety and Health Act by the previous year’s...more
Oregon lawmakers just passed more stringent civil penalties and expanded the scope of workplace safety investigations – which means employers need to immediately acquaint themselves with these modifications and grasp the...more
When Fisher Phillips attorneys recently secured a key victory over a state OSHA plan that was improperly trying to create a quota system to encourage investigators to issue citations and assess penalties, it opened the door...more
The Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration (NV OSHA) recently announced an increase in penalties for workplace safety violations, as well as a renewed focus on specific industries for inspections. The new...more
“There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” has famously been attributed to Mark Twain, who himself attributed it to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Data, however, never lies....more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued a February 28th news release proposing penalties for Arizona Traders Co. (“ATC”). ATC is stated to operate an El Paso, Texas, jewelry metal-plating...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) increased the maximum penalty amount for serious and other-than-serious violations to $15,625 per violation effective January 15, 2023. Only eleven days later, OSHA...more
Through the first month of 2023, OSHA signaled to employers that enforcement is an agency priority and that it will use a full range of mechanisms to hold employers accountable for workplace health and safety violations....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In an effort to significantly increase the number of citations and penalties it may issue during an inspection, OSHA has updated its enforcement procedures for inspections to permit citations for each...more
Late on January 26, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a press release concerning a significant change in long-standing policy related to instance-by-instance issuance of citations that will...more
OSHA annually adjusts its penalties for inflation. The adjustments are effective for penalties assessed after January 15, 2023. The new maximum penalty for serious, other-than-serious, and posting requirements is $15,625 per...more
No penalty is a good penalty, but many Department of Labor fines just got worse – including those that can be assessed against mine operators. The agency just published a final rule that increases the maximum civil penalties...more
Employers may be surprised to learn that North Carolina OSHA’s maximum penalties more than doubled on October 1 — and these penalties will increase every January, starting in 2023, to match the maximum penalties available to...more
CONSIDERATIONS FOR EMPLOYERS AS OSHA PENALTIES SOAR TO NEW HEIGHTS - The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced inflation-adjustment increases in penalties for violating regulations promulgated by DOL agencies,...more
The U.S. Department of Labor has just published its yearly increases to the maximum civil penalties that may be assessed via citations against employers by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) as a result...more
You may be asking yourself what a VSSR is and how it affects you as an Ohio employer. The Ohio Revised Code states that a violation of a specific safety requirement (VSSR) is the responsibility of every Ohio employer to...more
Democrats recently introduced a budget bill that proposes significant changes to employers nationwide – including massive hikes to penalties in cases where workplace safety officials find employers out of compliance. What do...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) conducts workplace safety inspections and issues citations, and, as previously discussed, all penalties assessed after January 15 include increased amounts – with...more
It’s #WorkforceWednesday! This week, workplace safety and liability issues are top of mind while employers also look ahead to the tax issues telecommuting will cause this tax season. OSHA Issues Citations for COVID-19...more
If found responsible for a serious violation of workplace safety standards, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration can assess up to $13,494 per item cited. However, when the citation involves a repeat or...more