by admin | Dec 10, 2014 | DOL, OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began writing a combustible dust rule in early 2009, right after Barack Obama took office on a campaign promise (among many others) to have the agency author such a rule. It was “long past time” for...
by admin | Dec 9, 2014 | U.S. Supreme Court
A unanimous Supreme Court decision issued today declared that Amazon warehouse workers who are forced to stand in line for security checks upon leaving their worksite are no longer on the clock, and thus the time spent in line is not compensable. Amazon requires those...
by admin | Dec 8, 2014 | DOL, Minimum Wage Law, WHD
Speaking Dec. 4 at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., Secretary Tom Perez told attendees that the Department of Labor (DOL) now has 1,000 Wage and Hour (WHD) investigators aggressively enforcing the nation’s pay, overtime and worker...
by admin | Dec 4, 2014 | DOL, OSHA
David Michaels, assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, today issued the following statement on the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2013 Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: “Today we learned that, in...
by admin | Dec 4, 2014 | DOJ, EEOC
Still under Democratic control for a while longer, the U.S. Senate has confirmed a new Commissioner for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), along with a General Counsel. Charlotte Burrows, currently Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department...
