Adam Young

Atlanta

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Therapist specializing in trauma and sexual abuse. https://t.co/G0325Yi3WV

Articles

That’s It, Folks! Cal/OSHA’s COVID Rule Has (Mostly) Expired | JD Supra

2 months ago | jdsupra.com | Patrick Joyce |Ilana R. Morady |Adam Young

Seyfarth Synopsis: As of February 3, 2025, California’s COVID-19-specific workplace regulations will expire, though employers must still track COVID-19 cases until February 3, 2026. Cal/OSHA can enforce COVID-19 as a workplace hazard under the Injury Illness Prevention Program standard, making it prudent for employers to consider infectious disease prevention in their IIPP. Since 2020, California employers have had to comply with Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19-specific regulations.
Another Year in The Books – OSHA’s Top Ten Safety Violations for Fiscal Year 2024 | JD Supra

Jan 22, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Patrick Joyce |Adam Young

January 22, 2025 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: OSHA enforces almost 1,000 standards and tens of thousands of individual regulations related to General Industry, Construction, Maritime, and other industries. Once again, OSHA released its preliminary data for the top ten most frequently cited standards for FY 2024 at the National Safety Council Safety Congress & Expo.
New Year, New Penalties: OSHA and USEPA Increase Penalties | JD Supra

Jan 14, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Patrick Joyce |Adam Young

Seyfarth Synopsis: The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) have published their 2025 increases to civil penalties. We have blogged previously about the annual adjustments to the maximum civil penalty dollar amounts for OSHA and EPA violations. The agencies have now finalized the 2024 inflation adjustments, which increase the penalties.
Responding to an Accident: OSHA and Legal Liabilities | JD Supra

Sep 13, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Mark Lies |Adam Young

A terrible accident has occurred at your worksite. An employee operating a forklift made an errant turn, crashed into a support beam, and sustained serious injuries. Workplace accidents create complex interaction of legal liabilities relating to worker’s compensation (if your employee was injured), OSHA (applicable to any worker onsite), tort law (particularly if a non-employee was injured), contract law, and criminal law.
FBAR: The Eleventh Circuit Holds That Willful FBAR Penalties are Subject to the Eighth Amendment Creating Circuit Split | JD Supra

Sep 13, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Adam Young |Isaac Hoenig

IntroductionFor years, FBAR litigants have made the commonsense argument that large willful FBAR penalties, which can exceed the value of the unreported foreign accounts themselves, violate the excessive fines clause of the Eighth Amendment. Until recently, every court to consider this argument has held that the Eighth Amendment did not apply.
The IRS has started its own Employee Retention Credit Olympics | JD Supra

Aug 7, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Elizabeth Blickley |Adam Young

Coinciding with the opening day of the Olympic games, the IRS issued IR-2024-198, again stating that it will deny tens of thousands of ERC claims that, according to the IRS at least “show clear signs of being erroneous,” which adds to the 20,000 ERC claim disallowance letters mailed in December 2023. The IRS also identified five (5) new red flags for taxpayers to look out for with respect to incorrect ERC claims.
Partnership Interest Sale Inventory Gain is Not U.S. Source Income | JD Supra

Jul 29, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Adam Young

On July 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed the U.S. Tax Court in holding that inventory gain recognized by a nonresident alien individual partner on the sale of her interest in a U.S. partnership was not taxable as U.S. source income. The taxpayer in Rawat is a Canadian citizen that owned 29.2% of a U.S. partnership, Innovation Ventures LLC (“Innovation”). Innovation markets and sells 5-Hour Energy drinks.
Union Intrusion: New OSHA Rule Permits Non-Employee Union Representatives on OSHA Inspection Walkarounds | JD Supra

Apr 2, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Adam Young |A. Scott Hecker |Matthew Sloan |Adam Young

Seyfarth Synopsis: On April 1, 2024, the Federal Register published OSHA’s final rule revising its regulations regarding whom employees can authorize to act as their representative(s) to accompany compliance officers during on-site OSHA inspections.
Indoor Heat Illness Standard: More Delay of the Long-Delayed Rule | JD Supra

Mar 25, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Patrick Joyce |Ilana R. Morady |Adam Young

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Cal/OSHA Standards Board was ready to vote on Cal/OSHA’s indoor heat rule at the March 21, 2024 Standards Board meeting, but at the 11th hour, the Board was ordered to cancel its scheduled vote. Quick SummaryIn a surprising development, the Cal/OSHA indoor heat rule, which was expected to be approved at the Standards Board’s March 21, 2024 meeting, has been delayed yet again.
Forgotten Due Diligence: Overlooked Occupational Safety & Health, OSHA Liabilities During M&A Transactions | JD Supra

Mar 19, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Aaron Gillett |Adam Young

1. A Nightmare AcquisitionYour Company has recently acquired a small logistics company with a strong business reputation. Eighteen days after the acquisition was finalized, you receive a call that there has been a tragic forklift accident in a warehouse operated by a subsidiary of the newly acquired target company. An employee of a staffing agency was struck by a forklift and is in intensive care.