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OSHA Modifies Hazard Communication Standard

This past spring, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) modified its Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) to conform to the United Nations' Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of...more

Rogers Towers: HIRE Act Creates New Tax Benefits for Employers

The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (“HIRE Act”), signed into law by President Obama on March 18, 2010, creates, among other things, two new tax benefits to employers hiring workers who were previously unemployed...more

Kramm vs. USDOL and Dept. of the Army, Mobility Equipment Command, Saigon, Republic of Vietnam

ECAB Decision Finding Employee's Cancer as Caused by Expsoure to Agent Orange

The only documented OWCP claim issued by the USDOL for the death of a US federal civilian employee due to Agent Orange. Claimant was a young civilian employee of the US Army employed in Vietnam from 1968 through 1975...more