{"id":2961,"date":"2018-03-05T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2018-03-05T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:35:25","slug":"acosta-defend-dol-osha-budget-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/03\/05\/acosta-defend-dol-osha-budget-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Acosta to Defend DOL\/OSHA Budget Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-369\" src=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/30822707756_616ba66395_z-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Acosta Budget\" width=\"363\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/30822707756_616ba66395_z-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/30822707756_616ba66395_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies will hold a <a href=\"https:\/\/appropriations.house.gov\/calendar\/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=395112\">hearing tomorrow morning<\/a>\u00a0at 10:00 am on the FY 2019 Department of Labor Budget. Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta will testify.<\/p>\n<h2>Ticked Off About Tipping<\/h2>\n<p>This should be a rather lively hearing for Acosta. Among the top issues he will be grilled on is the Department&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/02\/01\/gang-couldnt-deregulate-straight\/\">failure to publish an economic analysis<\/a> of its tipping rule when it was proposed earlier this year. You may recall that\u00a0DOL&#8217;s Wage and Hour Division apparently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bnanews.bna.com\/daily-labor-report\/labor-dept-ditches-data-on-worker-tips-retained-by-businesses\">hid an economic analysis<\/a> from that was intended to back up their reversal of an Obama era regulation that would have allowed restaurant workers to keep their tips.\u00a0 Not publishing an economic analysis is a no-no when trying to change or eliminate a regulation &#8212; especially when you&#8217;re doing it just because you don&#8217;t like what the analysis says.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Congress were not amused.\u00a0Senator Elizabeth Warren has sent a <a href=\"http:\/\/src.bna.com\/v6U\">letter<\/a> to\u00a0Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta saying she is \u201calarmed and angry\u201d about at the report that DOL hid the results of their economic analysis and requested copies of all final and interim economic analyses, a list of DOL, OMB and White House officials who received copies of the analyses, and all e-mails related to the analyses within the Department of Labor, and between DOL and the White House.<\/p>\n<h2>OSHA Issues<\/h2>\n<p>There are a number of workplace safety and health issues that members can be expected to discuss with Acosta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beryllium Standard Delay<\/strong>: OSHA <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/03\/05\/osha-announces-delay-beryllium-standard-enforcement\/\">announced<\/a> earlier this week that it was delaying enforcement of the beryllium standard by two months for all workers, and that it was putting into effect its weakening of protections for construction and maritime workers even before issuing a final standard that would have put the rollback into law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elimination of the Susan Harwood Training Grants<\/strong>: This is, in the immortal words of Yogi Berra,\u00a0d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu\u00a0all over again.\u00a0 Trump proposed to eliminate this highly successful program last year and the House agreed. The Senate, however, refused &#8212; on a bipartisan basis &#8212; to eliminate the grants, and although we still don&#8217;t have a final FY 2018 budget, it looks like the program will survive another year.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Acosta testified that the elimination of the $11 million Harwood grants was being made up for with a $4 million increase in the federal Compliance Assistance budget.\u00a0 This year they&#8217;re only proposing to add $3 million to the Compliance Assistance Budget. Despite Acosta&#8217;s failure in basic arithmetic, Harwood grants do different things than hiring more Compliance Assistance Specialists or expanding VPP, as I explained <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/06\/08\/acostas-harwood-grant-distortions\/\">last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Susan Harwood Grants, on the other hand, provide money to non-profit organizations \u2014 colleges, labor unions, business associations, community groups \u2014 to provide direct, hands-on training to workers about the workplace hazards they face and their rights under the law. \u00a0The organizations that receive Harwood money often focus on \u201cvulnerable\u201d workers \u2014 like day laborers, immigrants and others who work in high hazard occupations and who are difficult to reach by OSHA. This is a very different audience than the CAS\u2019s talk to and the programs perform a very different function. In addition, Harwood grantees are required to conduct sophisticated evaluations to ensure that their training programs are effective. Grantees also produce worker-oriented\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/dcsp\/vpp\/index.html\">training materials<\/a>\u00a0that are publicly available. Some of the program\u2019s success stories can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/dte\/sharwood\/successes.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expansion of VPP:<\/strong> The FY 2019 budget proposes adding $3 million to\u00a0add Compliance Assistance Specialists, who had been cut in previous years due to budget limitations, and an addition of eight staff to work exclusively on the Voluntary Protection Programs.\u00a0 The agency &#8220;anticipates approving 155 new VPP sites and re-approving 395 sites in FY 2019.\u201d\u00a0 And, as we&#8217;ve explained before, although VPP has always been a favorite program of Republican administrations, the program has faced\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/07\/14\/1547\/\">significant integrity and funding issues<\/a>\u00a0over the past several years. Congresspersons may want to ask about the outcome of the two stakeholder meetings that OSHA held last year to discuss problems with the program.<\/p>\n<p>They may also want to ask why the President would want to add more of OSHA&#8217;s scarce resource to a program that helps the best companies get better, instead of investing that money in enforcing the law against the bottom-feeding employers who cut corners and endanger workers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Regulatory Agenda:<\/strong> There are a number of important standards on OSHA&#8217;s regulatory agenda that seem to be Missing in Action. Two of them address serious hazards faced by our front-line health care workers: infectious diseases and workplace violence.\u00a0 The next step for infectious diseases is a proposal. Although a Request for Information was issued last year for workplace violence, the agency hasn&#8217;t even announced a date for the small business (SBREFA) panel yet &#8212; the first major step in the regulatory process.\u00a0 Aside from\u00a0a final standard weakening the beryllium standard for construction and maritime workers (see above), and weakening of the Obama administration\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/11\/22\/one-last-time-osha-extends-recordkeeping-reporting-deadline\/\">electronic recordkeeping regulation<\/a>\u00a0 the only step on a major standard in the budget proposal is a SBREFA panel on a cell tower worker standard.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, the Representatives may want to ask Secretary Acosta if OSHA has figured out which two worker protections the agency will take away in order to comply with Trump&#8217;s &#8220;1 in\/2-out&#8221; Executive Order if they go forward with the cell tower standard or any of the others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies will hold a hearing tomorrow morning\u00a0at 10:00 am on the FY 2019 Department of Labor Budget. Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta will testify. Ticked Off About Tipping This should be a rather lively hearing for Acosta. 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