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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Fourth Circuit Allows Suit Alleging NCOSHA Citations Incentives to Proceed

Following a 2020 fire that resulted in several employee fatalities, the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Administration (NCOSHA) issued a series of citations and penalties to the employer involved in that...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

New Law Expands Cal/OSHA’s Enforcement Authority

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Senate Bill 606, which becomes effective on January 1, 2022, strengthens Cal/OSHA’s enforcement powers by creating two new categories of Cal/OSHA violations: “enterprise-wide” and “egregious”. A finding of an enterprise-wide...more

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Beltway Buzz - September 2021 #4

Congressional Update, Part I: Budget Brinksmanship. This time next week, we could be in the middle of a government shutdown. Always the masters of brinksmanship, our congressional legislators still do not have a deal to...more

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Is OSHA Improperly Expanding the Scope of its Inspections?

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2015 brought more changes to the OSHA enforcement landscape than we’ve seen in the last 30 years. A judge’s ruling in December that Fed-OSHA could seek abatement of alleged hazards at every location operated by an...more

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Judge Says OSHA Can Seek Hazard Abatement at Worksites it Never Inspected

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We saw more OSHA changes in 2015 than in any time in the last 30 odd years. Nevertheless, an OSHA Administrative Judge issued a decision a few weeks ago that could eclipse OSHA’s 2015 pronouncements on temporary employees,...more

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