Alleged “double dipping” by a former Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) employee has led to a far-ranging – and some say unconstitutional – audit of all DOSH staff and their outside activities. The audit, conducted by the Department of Industrial Relations Legal Unit, is prompting howls of protest from inspectors, with at least …
Cal/OSHA inspectors are loudly protesting a Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) probe into their outside activities that they say is unnecessarily intrusive and violates their privacy. Unions representing Division of Occupational Safety and Health personnel have demanded that DIR scale back the audit, which was triggered after an inspector was alleged to have improperly participated …
Alameda County Superior Judge Frank Roesch yesterday ordered the Schwarzenegger administration to end furloughs for all state workers who are paid from non-general fund accounts. The order applies to all employees regardless of bargaining unit or union affiliation in nearly 70 “special fund” agencies statewide, including several that are part of the Department of Industrial …
The heat promises to be a hot subject in California long after the cold and rain return to the Golden State. On July, the United Farm Workers (UFW) union and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Cal/OSHA seeking court-mandated changes to the state’s heat illness regulation …
The questioning wasn’t particularly heated, but it’s fair to say the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) were on the hot seat this week as they answered questions on heat illness prevention posed by an Assembly Budget Subcommittee. Even though they took no action, legislators took the …
As with every state agency, regardless of its funding source, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) will be implementing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s furlough order next month. But it won’t be without some flexibility, as the agency juggles compliance with the order with regulating safety. The governor issued a controversial executive order last month …
John Duncan, who served as director of the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) in the late 1990s, has been renamed to that post by Gov. Schwarzenegger. He takes over for Acting Director John Rea. The position gives him a non-officio position on State Compensation Insurance Fund’s board of directors at an agency that also …