Aaron R. Gelb

Dec 4, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Eric Conn |Rachel Conn |Aaron R. Gelb

Following another close national election, President Trump returns to the White House for a second term, and resumes control over the vast Executive Branch bureaucracy, including the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. OSHA is coming off the heels of a remarkable period of record-setting enforcement and a flurry of new rulemaking under the Biden/Harris Administration.

Nov 27, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Andrea Chavez |Aaron R. Gelb

Employment discrimination in the workplace is alive and well. Indeed, according to Monster’s recent Workplace Discrimination Poll, only 9% of workers claim to have NOT faced some form of workplace discrimination. There have been a host of developments federally that address discrimination issues. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its Strategic Enforcement Plan for Fiscal Years 2024 –2028, establishing the EEOC’s subject matter priorities for the next few years.

Nov 13, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Eric Conn |Rachel Conn |Aaron R. Gelb

As the dust settles on the 2024 Election Cycle and the pundits continue analyzing and dissecting the results, the OSHA/MSHA Team at Conn Maciel Carey draws from decades of experience representing employers during Republican and Democratic administrations to forecast how the workplace safety and health landscape may change with respect to enforcement, compliance assistance, and rulemaking under a second Trump Administration.

Sep 26, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Aaron R. Gelb |Darius Rohani-Shukla

As loyal readers of the OSHA Defense Report know, OSHA continues to look for ways to proactively inspect workplaces in industries that the agency believes merit greater attention, including through the development of new National, Regional, and Local Emphasis Programs (NEPs, REPs, and LEPs).