The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has authorized an advisory committee to discuss the remaining contentious issues surrounding lifts. It has been more than a year since the Board revised its regulation …
48 COR 40-8447 [¶23,127R] JURISDICTION – PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION, INTERLOCUTORYLabor Code § 6614 (2021) – Even if Employer’s petitions for reconsideration raised questions of law, which the Appeals Board may …
Three significant occupational safety and health bills are moving forward in the California legislature. The most significant of them – SB 606 – has been amended again. The bill by …
The holding of video hearings before the Cal/OSHA Appeals Board has been a creature of necessity during the pandemic. But now it appears the practice could become a permanent practice …
48 COR 40-8439 [¶23,122R] JURISDICTION – PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION, INTERLOCUTORYLabor Code § 6614 (2021) – Even if Employer’s petition for reconsideration raised questions of law, which the Appeals Board may …
Poultry processing giant Foster Farms and four contractors face cumulative penalties of almost $300,000 after a Cal/OSHA investigation into COVID deaths at Livingston company last year. Foster Farms alone is …
Governor Gavin Newsom’s May budget revise keeps the across-the-board increases he proposed for Cal/OSHA in January. They amount to 8% for enforcement and the Appeals Board and 10% for the …
48 COR 40-8423 [¶23,113R] JURISDICTION – PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION, INTERLOCUTORYLabor Code § 6614 (2021) – Even if Employer’s petition for reconsideration raised questions of law, which the Appeals Board may …