When the healthcare worker becomes the patient
The state of healthcare is a topic of heated discussion among not only lawmakers and presidential candidates, but ordinary Americans.Is ObamaCare working? Should it be repealed? Why are healthcare...
View ArticleThe delegate-and-forget-about-it doctrine and government's fourth branch
It's been a long time coming, but structural reforms to the regulatory process are finally starting to reach the mainstream. Presidential candidates, and sitting members of Congress alike, are...
View Article'Nudging' toward a safer workplace by making injury records public
Earlier this month, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a regulation that would require firms to submit data (that they already are required to collect) on worker injuries...
View ArticleWarren calls for investigation into OSHA inspections during pandemic
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led five fellow Senate Democrats calling on a Labor Department watchdog to investigate the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) response to the...
View ArticleWorkplace safety is not a game: It's the law
With political leaders now rallying around a relief package that could include a moratorium on COVID-19 lawsuits against employers, we cannot forget just how brazenly many large corporations continue...
View ArticleBiden orders OSHA to release new COVID-19 guidance to employers on protecting...
President Biden signed an executive order on Thursday directing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue guidance to employers on protecting workers from COVID-19. The...
View ArticleOSHA sends draft emergency temporary standard for COVID-19 to OMB review
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced on Monday it has sent a draft emergency temporary standard (ETS) on the coronavirus pandemic to the Office of Management and Budget,...
View ArticleAmazon injury rate well above warehouse standard: report
Amazon reported serious injuries at nearly double the rate of other warehouses between 2017 and 2020, according to a report released Tuesday.The Strategic Organizing Center (SOC), a coalition of labor...
View ArticlePoultry plant fined $1M over 'entirely avoidable' deaths of six...
The Department of Labor this week issued nearly $1 million in fines over a January nitrogen leak at a poultry processing plant that killed six people and hospitalized at least a dozen others. The...
View ArticleSwift and thorough White House review of vaccine mandate is critical
Last week, it was reported that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sent its regulation requiring employers with more than 100 employees to mandate vaccines for their workers to...
View ArticleBen Shapiro's media company sues Biden administration over vaccine mandate
Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro's media company, The Daily Wire, announced on Thursday that it had filed a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.In September,...
View ArticleWill Supreme Court accept Biden's vaccine 'work-around' as...
The Biden administration was hit by a broadside last week, when the U.S. Court of Appeals enjoined its use of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to implement a national vaccine...
View ArticleBiden's illegal vaccine mandate is about politics, not science
President Biden appears to view Americans not as free citizens but as disobedient subjects. In September, he informed the millions of Americans who remain unvaccinated that “our patience is wearing...
View ArticleOSHA probes Amazon's fatal warehouse collapse
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is launching a probe into the fatal collapse of an Amazon facility in Illinois after it was hit by a tornado, the agency said Monday. OSHA has...
View ArticleBiden coronavirus vaccine-or-test mandate goes into effect
Key components of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine or test mandate for more than 80 million workers went into effect Monday amid an ongoing Supreme Court battle that could ultimately doom...
View ArticleBiden administration withdraws its vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses
The Biden administration on Tuesday said it is withdrawing its vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses with at least 100 employees after the Supreme Court earlier this month blocked the requirement from...
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