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Following years of contradictory decisions at the appeals court level, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to settle the question of whether Gay and transgender employment rights are protected by federal civil rights law. A series of cases involving Gay employment…
A myriad of technological challenges have raised roadblocks to public acceptance of autonomous vehicles, but who could have guessed that one of them would turn out to be the perceived racism of pedestrian detection systems? Researchers Benjamin Wilson, Judy…
For the first time in United States history, a person is more likely to die from an accidental opioid overdose than from a motor vehicle accident, the National Safety Council reports. In fact, workplace deaths involving drugs or alcohol rose by at least 25%…
OSHA issued a Request For Information to help the agency consider opening a rulemaking for updating the powered industrial trucks standards for the general, maritime and construction industries. The standards went into effect in 1971, and were based on…
One in seven employees don’t feel safe, and neither they nor human resources know how to respond to a violent incident, a Society for Human Resource Management survey finds. Nearly half of HR professionals said their organizations had at one point…
The Chemical Activity Barometer, a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council, rose 0.1% in March on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis. This repreesents the first gain in five months, but as the ACC points out, on a…
Thanks to a recent court decision, employers will need to file their EEO-1 Form in two parts this year, one at the end of May and the other at the end of September. The first part contains what is termed Component 1 data (workforce demographics by job…
Spurred to action by high-profile recalls of food imports, the Food and Drug Administration announced a strategy for updating its import food safety enforcement activities. The United States imports about 15% of our overall food supply from more than 200…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s proposal of new overtime regulations should remind all employers about their need to adhere to the federal-level Fair Labor Standards Act. FLSA covers minimum wage and overtime pay for employees engaged in interstate commerce…
States need to adopt new legislation to plug gaps in their existing highway safety laws, including targeting “the needless carnage resulting from large truck crashes,” says the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. The recommendations are included in the…
OSHA budget constraints have created a backlog and significant delays in the handling of whistleblower complaints. The number of whistleblower complaints rose by 29% over the last five years – from 7,408 complaints in 2014 to 9,566 complaints in 2018. In…
The National Labor Relations Board has weakened the union practice of siphoning off non-member dues to fund lobbying efforts. The board decision for private sector employees is similar in reasoning to a ruling late last year by the U.S. Supreme Court which…