Governor Overrules Legislature, Vetoes Cal/Osha Personnel Increase

By: Kevin Thompson

Governor says agency can't fill positions already authorized and safety and health statistics don't support even more inspectors. But Division of Occupational Safety and Health still gets a raise in 2006-07 state budget. Meanwhile, some 70 inspectors write to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency secretary urging her to resolve a pay disparity between industrial hygienists and safety engineers that they say is "corrosive" to Cal/OSHA.

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