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It's time to improve your workplace safety program. Fed-OSHA announced the sweeping new requirement that, beginning in 2017, many employers must electronically provide to the Agency the details concerning...

The escape and evacuation plan required by existing standard 30 CFR 77.1101 is prepared by the mine operator and is used by mines, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), and persons involved in rescue and recovery operations.

EPA initiated an enforcement action against Elementis for its failure to send EPA a 2002 industry study showing increased risk of lung cancer to workers exposed to hexavalent chromium (Cr6).

The budget provides approximately $170 million to combat PFAS pollution.

The US Department of Health and Human Services recently updated its guide to help the private and public healthcare sectors develop cybersecurity protocols that address NIST's Framework for Improving...

On 23 November 2004, the Court of First Instance (CFI) gave its judgment in Frischpack v OHIM (Forme d'une boîte de fromage) <U>Case T-360/03</U>.</

Early last month, the city council in Washington, D.C., unanimously—and quietly—passed the Cannabis Employment Protections Amendment Act of 2022 (the "Act"), extending employment protections for residents...

Tax Exempt and Government Entities is pleased to release ourFiscal Year 2021 Accomplishments Letter. Highlights of our accomplishments during the last fiscal year include...

A federal judge recently dismissed claims that a vehicle was negligently designed, tested, and assembled, along with a claim that the manufacturer failed to warn or instruct users about a defect in vehicles.

The Federal Trade Commission has just issued a notice that it plans to issue subpoena-like requests to parent companies of quick-serve restaurants and food/beverage manufacturers, as well as to manufacturers of breakfast cereals, snack foods, candy and gum, carbonated and noncarbonated beverages, frozen and chilled desserts, prepared meals, and dairy products.

Health care facilities who use physical restraints or seclusion in patient treatment will be subject to stricter training requirements and higher standards, according to a new final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS").

In what appears to be the first civil resolution of its kind, the USAO entered into a settlement with the defendant, Care Initiatives, for $214,200 for alleged deficiencies in COVID-19 safety protocols.

On April 7, 2020, the California Department of Industrial Relations' Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA)

On May 20, 2020, worker advocates submitted a petition for an emergency COVID-19 safety standard demanding additional COVID-19 regulations for those employees not covered by the...

On June 16, 2020, several employees at a McDonald's franchise in Oakland, California filed a lawsuit against their employer, in a matter entitled Hernandez v. VES McDonald's...

The State of California and many California counties mandate the use of face coverings in the workplace and elsewhere. California considers the issue important enough to include a section entitled ...

State and federal courts shut down all in-person operations in March 2020 based on the COVID-19 health emergency. Since then, many have struggled to reschedule the significant backlog of jury trials.