LA Stadium Workers Avert Strike Before First World Cup Game
Workers at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles reached a tentative agreement with management, averting the threat of a strike days before hosting the US team’s first World Cup football match.
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House Moves to Block More Labor Department Job Corps Closures
The Labor Department couldn’t unilaterally close Job Corps centers under a provision attached to a House spending bill Tuesday.
EPA’s Use of Gene Test to Assess Chemicals Sparks Mixed Reaction
The EPA’s first effort to use an emerging type of scientific data to calculate the amount of a chemical that is hazardous drew praise from chemical manufacturers and criticism from environmental health groups, who said the agency ignored evidence of the chemicals’ harms.
Labor Department Offers $10 Million for Miner Training Grants
The US Labor Department is providing more than $10 million in grant funding to support mine safety training, underscoring the Trump administration’s dual priorities of providing compliance assistance while expanding domestic mineral production.
Maryland Child Labor Penalties to Equal Federal Amounts
Maryland created civil penalties for child labor violations that equal penalty amounts found in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, under a bill that went into effect June 1.
Cambria Wins Pause on Insurance Dispute Over Silica Litigation
A Minnesota federal court paused a lawsuit seeking to determine whether a
Trump Border Chief Warns New York ICE Surge Is ‘Coming’
The Trump administration has drawn up a plan to surge US Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel to New York City, a move that threatens to escalate tensions with New York Governor
White House Aims for Backdoor E-Verify Expansion in Grants Rule
The Trump administration is quietly pursuing the biggest expansion in decades of the federal electronic system used to verify workers’ employment eligibility via a proposal to overhaul its grant process.
Amazon Patent Pseudo-Court Can Halt Sellers With Scant Oversight
Latch.it, maker of popular locks for recreational vehicles, lost a patent case that closed off its most valuable sales channel after a decision from an unusual judge: Amazon.
Arbitrator’s Reinstatement of Worker With Knife Upheld on Appeal
A Chicago hotel operator must comply with an arbitrator’s decision and rehire an employee it fired for displaying a knife and making a coworker feel threatened, the Seventh Circuit affirmed.
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Covid-19 Vaccine: Can Your Employer Make You Take It?
As employers are making plans to return to their workplaces. How quickly they succeed will likely depend on how many of their employees get vaccinated.
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View MoreJoseph M. Sanzari, Inc., Newark, NJ
Employer contests a four-item serious citation in 11 parts and $53,976 fine. The serious citation includes the alleged violation of 29.C.F.R. 1910.134(c)(1), for failure to establish and implement a written respiratory protection program with worksite-specific procedures; 29.C.F.R. 1910.134(e)(1), for failure to provide a medical evaluation to determine an employee’s ability to use a respirator before the employee was required to use the respirator in the workplace; and 29.C.F.R. 1910.134(f)(2), for failure to ensure that an employee using a tight-fitting face-piece respirator was fit tested prior to initial use of the respirator. (20-0329)
Framing Specialist Inc., Cliffside Park, NJ
Employer contests a three-item serious citation and $6,998 fine and a repeat citation and $8,906 fine. The serious citation includes the alleged violation of 29.C.F.R. 1926.102(a)(1), for failure to ensure that eye and face protective equipment was used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury; 29.C.F.R. 1926.1053(b)(1), for failure to secure portable ladders used to access an upper landing surface against displacement; and 29.C.F.R. 1926.1053(b)(13), for failure to ensure that the top step of a stepladder was not used as a step. (20-0330)
PetSmart, Inc., Horseheads, NY
Employer contests a two-item serious citation and $12,337 fine and a two-item other-than-serious citation with no fine. The serious citation includes the alleged violation of 29.C.F.R. 1910.36(d)(1), for failure to ensure that employees were able to open exit route doors from the inside at all times without keys, tools, or special knowledge; and 29.C.F.R. 1910.178(l)(4)(iii), for failure to conduct an evaluation of each powered industrial truck operator performance at least once every three years. The other-than-serious citation includes the alleged violation of 29.C.F.R. 1910.157(e)(3), for failure to perform annual maintenance checks on fire extinguishers. (20-0317)
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