California Labor Secretary Joining Biden Administration
Julie Su, secretary of California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA), has been nominated to become the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor. It is the number two …
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Workplace Fatality Update
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating 61 new workplace fatalities, 59 related to the coronavirus. The non-COVID fatalities include: An incident at SLP Trucking in Los Angeles. …
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Appeals Court Rules in Cal/OSHA Case – Consent Given, Despite Guns?
It is a case involving armed state officials, a smash-and-grab car burglary involving a Cal/OSHA manager, and a question of inspection consent. And the California Court of Appeal has upheld …
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Stop-Work Orders for Imminent Hazards
California’s Labor Employment Task Force (LETF) has issued OPUs – stop-work orders to several Southern California employers after the task force found conditions that put workers in “immediate danger of …
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LETF Inspectors Issue Two L.A.-Area Garment Firms Stop Work Orders
Cal/OSHA inspections at Los Angeles-area garment businesses resulted in stop-work orders issued to two employers on Jan. 16 because of alleged serious hazards to workers. As part of inspections by …
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Cal/OSHA/LETF Whittling Away at California’s Underground Economy
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has conducted more than 500 inspections of businesses so far as its part of the effort to root out the so-called “underground economy” …
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EEEC Seminar on Feb. 18
State Compensation Insurance Fund and the Economic and Employment Enforcement Coalition (EEEC) host a half-day seminar Feb. 18 targeted at construction industry employers interested in the topic of EEEC sweeps. …
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Coalition of the Enforcers
SAN FRANCISCO — When investigators from California’s Economic and Employment Enforcement (EEEC) Coalition come to visit a worksite, it usually means bad news for the employer. So why would a …
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