Masks Now Required Everywhere in California
California Governor Gavin Newsom is ordering Californians to wear face coverings in most indoor settings – including offices and clients calls – and many outdoor ones. New guidance from the …
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No Federal Emergency Coronavirus Rule
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has denied an appeal from AFL-CIO, which seeks to require Fed-OSHA to enact an emergency regulation to protect working people from …
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A Peculiar Risk
On May 19th, the United States Department of Labor issued its Revised Enforcement Guidance for Recording Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The Guidance goes into detail on how OSHA …
Cal/OSHA Challenged by COVID Complaints
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has faced an avalanche of workplace complaints in recent months, the overwhelming majority regarding COVID-19, the virus that originated in Wuhan, China. Like …
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Cal/OSHA Employees Get Pay Cuts Even With a Budget Increase
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed an 8% increase in Cal/OSHA’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year. But that news is tempered with the governor’s proposed 10% pay cut for …
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Newsom Approves Limited Term COVID-19 Presumption
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order today to create a rebuttable presumption that California’s essential employees who contract COVID-19 did so in the course of their employment and therefore …
Fed-OSHA Relaxes Enforcement – Will Cal/OSHA ?
The Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is giving is compliance safety and health officers (CSHOs) discretion on whether to forego citations during an inspection. The discretion is for certain …
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Coronavirus Fatalities Investigated
There have been at least six workplace fatalities allegedly from Chinese coronavirus infections. They include: A nurse for the Correctional Services Division of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department’s Twin Towers …
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