Acosta Reassures Business Community: “The Labor Department will roll back regulations.”
Responding to withering criticism from his friends in the business community for allowing the Obama administration’s “fiduciary rule” to go…
BREAKING: OSHA Announces Delay of Recordkeeping Rule
Probably hoping no one would notice, OSHA today subtly buried an “Update” deep in its website, announcing that it intends to propose a…
Alex Acosta
Chemical Standards
Construction
Office of Management and Budget
OSHA
Regulations and Standards
Silica
Industry Petitions OSHA to Reopen Silica Standard
Representatives of the construction industry, as well as general industry have petitioned Labor Secretary Alex Acosta to reopen the silica standard,…
Agriculture
Department of Labor
International
Mine Safety
MSHA
Office of Management and Budget
OSHA
Regulations and Standards
Short Stuff
Short Stuff: Information to Make Your Life More Interesting
Raw Sewage and A Foot per Worker: The Labor Department filed a lawsuit against G Farms in El Mirage, Arizona…
AFL-CIO
Alex Acosta
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Office of Management and Budget
Regulations and Standards
Regulatory Process
Making OSHA More Effective: President Trump and Secretary Acosta Need Your Help!
President Trump and Labor Secretary Acosta need you to do something for your country. On March 13, President Trump signed…
Swamp Monster in the White House: See no evil, fix no evil.
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank makes no secret about disliking Donald Trump. Instead of “draining the swamp” as he promised…
OSHA Regulations: The Next Target
By Scott Schneider After last fall’s election, with Republicans in charge of both the White House and Congress, it was…
OSHA Delays Enforcement of Silica Standard
OSHA announced this afternoon that it was delaying enforcement of its silica standard in the construction industry for 90 days.…
Labor Department Delays MSHA Rule Requiring Mines to be Safe Before Miners Start Work
The war against the war against mining continues as the Trump Labor Department attempts to save the mining industry from yet another…
Alex Acosta
Budget
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Department of Labor
Enforcement
OSHA
Regulations and Standards
Senate
Silica
Trump
Acosta Hearing: We watched so you wouldn’t have to
Alexander Acosta, the President’s nominee for Secretary of Labor testified today before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee.…