On July 22, 2015, Hassell Construction Co. was cited by OSHA for 16 safety violations (including 6 egregious willful violations) and given a whopping $423,900 fine. Hassell Construction Co. is a construction company based in Richmond, Texas with about 150 employees that construct water and sewer lines around Houston, Texas. The employer was given 15 [...]
Today's post was shared by US Labor Department and comes from blog.dol.gov Editor’s Note: This has been cross-posted from the AOL blog. You can view the original here.America is aging — as a country. As of last year about one in seven Americans was older than 65, and by 2030 it will be closer to [...]
In New York, after prevailing in trial court, unpaid interns for Fox Entertainment Group were able to receive class credit and minimum wage for their work on the set of the film “Black Swan.” Their win made the Second Circuit Court of Appeals adopt a test to be used in determining whether an unpaid intern [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Rod Rehm, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.This is the first installment of a series that will educate workers' and their families about injury, disease and death resulting from work. The most basic question is: What is workers'’ compensation? Workers’ compensation is a legal system established in all 50 states, [...]
Today's post was shared by Gelman on Workplace Injuries and comes from www.washingtonpost.comThere’s a good news/bad news situation for occupational injuries in the United States: Fewer people are getting hurt on the job. But those who do are getting less help.That’s according to a couple of important new reports out Wednesday on how the system [...]
Original post titled “Bounce Back” in Time Magazine June 1, 2015 (subscription required). For almost two decades, Dr. Stephen Southwick, professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, and Dr. Dennis Chaney, Dean at Ichan School of Medicine, have been studying what makes some people “bounce back” faster than others after a traumatic or stressful experience. Their main conclusion [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Catherine Stanton, from Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano.I was horrified when I recently read about a worker for a tuna company who was killed when he was cooked to death at the company’s California canning factory. According to the New York Daily News, the worker, Jose Melena, [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Rod Rehm, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.The AFL-CIO’s annual report about “the state of safety and health protections for America’s workers'” has been written about in a previous year on this blog. The recently released 2015 version focuses in an in-depth manner on data from 2013 and includes around 200 pages [...]
Today's post was shared by US Labor Department and comes from experttalk.creativesafetysupply.comhttps://experttalk.creativesafetysupply.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Construction_Fall_Safety_Stand-Down-Pt_2.mp3Fall prevention requires employer planning and employee training. Listen to Matt McNicholas of OSHA discuss the annual Construction Fall Safety Stand-Down May 4-15, 2015.Matt says employers need to do three things to keep employees safe from falls:1. Plan ahead to get work done safely. [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Paul J. McAndrew, Jr., from Paul McAndrew Law Firm.I’m starting here a three-part series explaining why workers' should claim their rights under workers'’ compensation laws. The three parts are, in summary: How the employer makes it tough to claim work comp; How the insurer makes it tough to claim [...]