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Hendershot Cowart P.C.

DOL’s Legal Team & OSHA Step Up Enforcement For Repeat & Willful Violations

In her 2023 Enforcement Report, Solicitor of Labor Seema Nanda revealed enhanced coordination with OSHA to hold employers and supervisors accountable for repeat and willful violations, especially those that lead to worker...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

OSHA Increases Civil Penalty Amounts Based on Inflation

Earlier this month, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that maximum civil penalties for serious violations would increase from $15,625 to $16,131. The penalties for repeat or willful violations...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Inflation Juices Annual Increases in US Department of Labor Civil Monetary Penalties

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It’s not only the cost of eggs that is increasing. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has published in the Federal Register the annual increases in civil money penalties required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Insult To Injury

If you weren’t already concerned about the rate of inflation, its effect has produced another blow in the OSHA world. Under the terms of the 2015 Inflation Adjustment Act, the U.S. Department of Labor has once again made the...more

Fisher Phillips

Indiana Considers $100,000 Fine for Workplace Fatalities

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Indiana GOP lawmaker and Chamber of Commerce join forces to support a bill to require a penalty for workplace fatalities of $100,000 per employee killed. House Bill 1341, authored by GOP lawmaker Martin Carbaugh, was filed on...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Ignorance of OSHA Requirements Does Not Preclude Willful Violation

Employers found to have committed repeat or willful violations of Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards are subject to citation penalties of 10 times those for ordinary violations, and in some cases...more

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