OSHA Healthcare Worker COVID-19 Hearing Starts Today
OSHA’s rulemaking hearing for a permanent standard to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19 begins this morning at 9:30 a.m. The…
Telework and Resilience: What’s the Missing Element?
The COVID-19 pandemic has radically altered the way we work, and the way work is organized. Mandatory and voluntary lockdowns…
Triumph of Hope over Evidence: The Biden Administration’s COVID Year in Review
Last week I took the opportunity of the first anniversary of President Biden’s worker protection Executive Order to review the…
OSHA Announces Permanent Health Care Worker COVID Standard
Never a dull moment here in Washington DC. OSHA has announced that it will have a COVID-19 standard covering health…
One Year Later: Worker Protection From COVID
Today is the first anniversary of President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) directing OSHA to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard to…
Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety
OSHA Penalties are going up: OSHA’s maximum penalties are going up. Penalties for serious violations are rising from $13,653 to…
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
There is a lot of very good analysis out there about the very bad decision by the Supreme Court to…
Supreme Court Blocks OSHA Standard, Leaves Workers Without COVID-19 Protection
The Supreme Court, in a predictable 6-3 decision, blocked OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that required employees in businesses with…
Supreme Court Allows OSHA Standard to Go Into Effect (as of this moment…)
I’m holding my breath and afraid to jinx it, but as of this moment, noon on Monday, we have not…
Supremes Hear OSHA Case: To Block or not to Block
So of course everyone is dying to know what a non-lawyer like me thinks about yesterday’s Supreme Court arguments about…