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Better Investigative Interviewing
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AGG Talks: Antitrust and White-Collar Crime Roundup - The Mar-a-Lago Trump Indictment
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Healthcare Providers: Make Sure You Know When You Need a Criminal Attorney
Why Your Data is Key to Reducing Risk and Increasing Efficiency During Investigations and Litigation
State AG Pulse | State AGs and Feds: The Dynamics of Influence & Collaboration
The Risk Roundtable: Pre-Existing Conditions and Abdullah Credits in New Jersey Workers' Compensation
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Feds Danske to a New Tune
The Rules They Are A-Changin’: CMS Proposes a Significant Change to the 60-Day Repayment Rule
Predatory Behavior Alleged Against OSHA Addressed During Orange County Board of Education Board Meeting Led by Greg Rolen
Early Returns with Jan Baran Podcast: There's a New Chair in Town – Dara Lindenbaum and the FEC Agenda Looking Towards 2024
Evaluating Fraud Under the Bank Secrecy Act - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
How Law Firms and Lobbyists Can Work Together: A Look Into Lobbyists’ Role Among State AGs - Regulatory Oversight Podcast
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OSHA requires employers to report a fatality or severe injury (“SIR”). Generally, a fatality must be reported within 8 hours and an in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or eye loss must be reported within 24 hours. After...more
Although OSHA has the right to conduct private, one-on-one interviews with a company’s non-managerial employees, those same employees have rights too. Those rights include: Keep in mind that an employee’s refusal to cooperate...more
We all know that OSHA has the right to interview folks as part of an investigation. Whether a company representative and the company attorney can also attend an interview depends on who is being interviewed....more
After May 31, 2024, employees can designate a non-employee to accompany OSHA compliance officers during worksite inspections. OSHA inspectors will determine whether non-employee representatives are “reasonably necessary”...more
Employment matters in the health care industry once again prompted significant attention from federal and state governments in 2023. While much of our 2022 Year in Review discussed how states were beginning to address...more
On Tuesday, October 31, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published a Memorandum of Understanding (2023 MOU) to facilitate interagency cooperation and...more
In February, the New York Times published an investigative report regarding alleged employment of underage migrants, many from Central America, at U.S. companies. While employment of certain minors is permitted under federal...more
Corporations must innovate and set themselves apart from their competition to achieve long-term success, but they cannot act with reckless abandon in doing so. Rather, they must strategically plan their moves to proactively...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued an April 20th news release stating that it had entered into a Settlement Agreement with the City of Delray Beach, Florida, to address an alleged retaliation...more
Construction continues to be one of the deadliest industries in the United States, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) is heavily targeting construction workplaces. In 2022, OSHA inspected...more
During a February 17, 2023 Board of Education meeting, Partner Greg Rolen in his capacity as general counsel addressed the Orange County Board of Education with regard to an investigation into OSHA and allegations of sexual...more
When looking at any process, there are often things to consider before step one, and HR investigations are no different. Here are three best practices your investigations team should follow once a triggering event has taken...more
In January of 2022, a worker in a Massachusetts cannabis cultivation facility died because of “the hazards of ground cannabis dust,” according to a report issued by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA). ...more
In late spring, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) held a roundtable for interested stakeholders to discuss the Equity Action Plan it issued on January 20, 2022. In hosting the public forum, the CPSC sought to...more
The Department of Justice announced criminal charges against an oilfield company, its vice president, and one of its contractors in connection with two deaths at a company facility in 2019. Additional charges were brought...more
The Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section Chief, Deborah Harris, recently discussed environmental crime enforcement during an American Bar Association virtual conference. Ms. Harris told attendees that...more
Recently OSHA updated its guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in the Workplace for employers who are not covered by the “COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard for Healthcare.” As we explained before,...more
Prior to the Trump administration, OSHA commonly engaged in the practice of “public shaming.” In other words, if an OSHA investigation found a relatively serious safety violation, it would issue a press release identifying...more
OSHA is pursuing a new avenue to identify potential employer violations related to COVID-19 employee deaths at long-term care facilities: employers’ CMS data. In May 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...more
It's #WorkforceWednesday. Here’s the week’s top workforce management and employment law news: CDC Issues Office Building Reopening Guidance The Centers for Disease Control has issued guidance for employers reopening office...more
Last week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an Interim Enforcement Response Plan for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (interim plan) to guide the agency’s field personnel in handling investigations into...more
A February 20, 2019 article from Bloomberg Law provides statistics to explain the significant delays experienced by litigators and attorneys alike in Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s investigation of...more
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has broad power to inspect workplaces. Section 8 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act empowers OSHA inspectors “to enter without delay and at reasonable times any...more
It’s that time of year again: for employers to celebrate the successes of the prior year and make plans and resolutions for the new one. But OSHA and MSHA are making New Year’s resolutions, too, and employers are well-advised...more
On August 1, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) launched a new pilot program, titled “Expedited Case Processing Pilot,” in its Western region. The program enables a complainant filing claims under whistleblower...more