Tagged in: DIR

DIR Revises “Double Dipping” Audit Procedures; Extends Response Deadline

After an outcry from its staff, the Department of Industrial Relations has revised its approach to digging into Cal/OSHA inspectors’ outside teaching activities, limiting the scope of the inquiry and extending the deadline to respond until the end of the month. Reaction to the original audit has been resoundingly negative, likely leading to the March … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

Uproar Over “Double Dipping” Audit

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 … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

Controversy over “Double Dipping” Investigation

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 … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

Court Orders End to Furloughs for Some State Workers

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 … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

DOSH Seeks Permanent Heat Changes; Farmworker Groups Seek Court-Ordered Protections

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 … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

The Heat Is On

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 … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

DOSH Preparing Furlough Plans

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 … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

Duncan Back At The Helm Of Industrial Relations

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 … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »