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Gavel to Gavel: Show your math — Protecting attorney fee awards

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Remember when your math teacher told you to show your work even if you had the correct answer? Now, that exact requirement unequivocally applies to attorney fee awards in Oklahoma. In a recent decision, the Oklahoma Supreme...more

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Illinois Law Changes Impact Job Postings, Obligations to Temporary Workers

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Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has signed amendments to the Illinois Equal Pay Act (IEPA) that will require most Illinois employers to provide pay scales and benefits in job postings, and amendments to the Illinois Day and...more

Dechert LLP

Revised DOJ Policy on Antitrust Compliance Offers New Opportunities for In-House Counsel to Protect Their Companies

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Question: Can a company have both an effective antitrust compliance program and an antitrust violation? DOJ before June 11, 2019: Nope. DOJ today: Yes, and your company may even get a deferred prosecution agreement if...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Clarification of OSHA's Position on Workplace Safety Incentive Programs and Post-Incident Drug Testing

On October 11, 2018, OSHA issued interpretive guidance designed to "clarify" controversial language in the Preamble to the anti-retaliation provisions in the recordkeeping and reporting amendments adopted by the Obama OSHA...more

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Whacky Employment Claims: Who's Whackier? Management or the Employee?

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As employment defense attorneys, we see many strange situations arise in the workplace. The question is, how prepared are you as an employer to handle the wackiness that may potentially arise when your employees make...more

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Signs that OSHA Priorities are Shifting Under the Trump Administration?

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There are new developments related to OSHA’s Electronic Recordkeeping Rule and the Volks Rule. As a reminder, the Electronic Recordkeeping Rule requires certain employers to electronically file their OSHA recordkeeping data...more

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OSHA’s New Anti-Retaliation Workplace Illness and Injury Reporting Rule: How Employers Can Prepare

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On November 28, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas denied a preliminary injunction that sought to block the nationwide implementation of the new Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

OSHA’s Regulation of Post-Accident Drug and Alcohol Testing to Become Effective, For Now

On November 28, 2016, a federal district court issued an order that allowed OSHA to move forward with implementation of its controversial standards related to mandatory post-accident drug testing programs and incident-based...more

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OSHA Anti-Retaliation Rule Will Take Effect December 1

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A federal judge on November 28 refused to block implementation of the anti-retaliation provisions of OSHA’s recordkeeping and reporting rule scheduled to take effect December 1, 2016. The business groups challenging the rule...more

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Judge Rules That OSHA Can, FOR NOW, Start Enforcing Limits On Incentives And Drug Testing

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On November 28th Texas US District Court Judge Sam Lindsay issued a 17 page Order denying employers groups a temporary injunction on OSHA’s revisions to its recordkeeping standard involving restrictions on safety incentives...more

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Court Declines to Enjoin OSHA Drug Testing and Safety Incentives Under the Electronic Recordkeeping Reporting Rule

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On a very limited legal basis, a federal district court has declined to enjoin the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration from enforcing portions of its new recordkeeping rule related to potentially retaliatory...more

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OSHA Clarifies Limits on Post-Accident Drug Testing and Safety Incentive Programs

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently released a memorandum explaining “in more detail” two provisions added to the recordkeeping regulation: Section 1904.35(b)(1)(i) requiring “employers to have a...more

Conn Maciel Carey LLP

OSHA’s Recordkeeping Anti-Retaliation Rule: Assault on Pizza Parties, Drug Tests and Exec Compensation

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OSHA’s recent Injury and Illness Recordkeeping reform has created quite a stir for employers. As we discussed in an earlier article about the new Recordkeeping rule, OSHA now requires employers to electronically submit to...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

OSHA Delays Enforcement of Portions of New Recordkeeping Rules

In response to employer complaints and a new federal lawsuit, on July 13, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced a delay in enforcement of the non-retaliation portions of its new injury and...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Mark Your Calendar! Deadline on New OSHA Recordkeeping Rule is Around the Corner

Employers should note the August 10, 2016, deadline for compliance with the anti-retaliation provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) new electronic recordkeeping and reporting rules. Other...more

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OSHA Delays Enforcement of Anti-Retaliation Provisions

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced on July 13, 2016, that the anti-retaliation provisions included in the revised recordkeeping regulation, 29 CFR Part 1904, will not be enforced until November...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

OSHA Delays Enforcement Date for New Workplace Injury and Illness Reporting Rule

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Seyfarth Synopsis: After a lawsuit was filed against OSHA challenging its May 2016 retaliation and recordkeeping rule, OSHA announced a three month delay in the rule’s effective date. OSHA announced yesterday that it has...more

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New OSHA Rule Could Affect Employers’ Drug Testing and Safety Incentives

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) intends to enhance its enforcement efforts against employers who OSHA believes are using drug testing and safety incentives to improperly reduce recordable work-related...more

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OSHA's Policy Mandates for ALL Employers Require Compliance by August 10, 2016

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Last month, we published an article explaining the amendments to the recordkeeping requirements issued by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regarding new mandatory electronic...more

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Employers Should Evaluate Safety Incentive Programs and Drug Testing Policies in Light of New OSHA Rule

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently published a final rule revising its recordkeeping and reporting regulation to specifically state that employer policies for reporting workplace injuries and...more

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