Sneaked into the congressional Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill last weekend – shortly before the Budget Committee approved it – are ten-fold increases in Fed-OSHA penalties for serious, willful, and …
Julie Su, secretary of California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA), has been nominated to become the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor. It is the number two …
The United States House of Representatives has voted to repeal – to rein in – a new Fed-OSHA rule on injury and illness recordkeeping. It is a certainty that Senate will follow suit and that President Donald Trump will sign it. But what does this mean for Cal/OSHA and, more importantly, California employers? Congress is …
Allegations by a Washington, D.C., group that Cal/OSHA is failing to conduct sufficient high-hazard inspections, doesn’t issue citations promptly and is not responding to worker complaints are based “almost entirely on outdated information,” says Division of Occupational Safety and Health Chief Juliann Sum in a formal response to Fed-OSHA. What’s more, Sum says, the “chronic …
In a point-by-point response to Fed-OSHA’s recent evaluation of a stakeholder complaint against Cal/OSHA, Chief Juliann Sum dismisses the allegations as based “almost entirely on outdated information.” She also attributes the deficiencies alleged in the CASPA as “reflecting conditions” under the administration of former Chief Ellen Widess. In late June, Fed-OSHA issued its findings on …