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Government action took months as nursing home workers died during the pandemic CNN 2/18/2021 By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN © Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images/FILE Andover Subacute and Rehab Center II in New Jersey made headlines with the discovery of 17 bodies in the facility's morgue in April. The federal agency responsible for protecting workers did little to hold nursing homes accountable for dangerous conditions during the coronavirus pandemic until it was too late, its own records show. A CNN analysis of violation data reveals that by the end of 2020, th...

By Chris Kirkham (Reuters) - U.S. workplace safety regulators have announced more than $4 million in penalties on more than 300 employers they say put...

Of the more than 300 employers who have accrued safety penalties during the coronavirus pandemic, only about one-third have paid,

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Each Friday during the first 100 days of the new administration, we will provide a recap of significant initiatives and events that will impact employers.  In week two, the Biden administration shook things up at the National Labor Relations Board with the firing and replacement of General Counsel Peter Robb, walked back President Trump’s pro-independent contractor agenda at the Department of Labor, made new appointments at OSHA, and issued additional employee-friendly Executive Orders. Executive & Agency Actions DOL Withdrawal o...

By 2/2/2021 The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis launched an investigation Monday into the spread of COVID-19 at meatpacking plants during the course of the pandemic. The committee sent letters to the country’s top meatpackers — JBS, Smithfield Foods, and Tyson Foods — as well as to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), requesting scores of information on the entities’ management of the spread of the virus among meatpacking workers, with a response deadline of Feb. 15. “Public reports indicate that meatpacking companies … ha...