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Feb 14, 2025 | 
indywithkids.com | Indy with Kids |Ashley Dykton |Katy Shumar-Mann |Rachel Conn
Have you had the chance to check out the Home
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Rachel Conn
Cal/OSHA announced in a press release on December 12, 2024, that it had issued its first willful heat violation citation, highlighting its increased emphasis on heat illness prevention. The citation imposed $276,425 in penalties on an employer for deliberately and knowingly failing to comply with outdoor heat illness prevention regulations, following a similar violation in 2022.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Rachel Conn
As we previously reported, on September 5, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Retail Worker Safety Act (S8358C/A8947C) into law. This significant legislation requires retail employers in New York State to implement comprehensive workplace violence prevention policies and provide mandatory training to their employees. Most provisions of the Act (excluding panic button installation) are set to take effect on March 3, 2025.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Andrea Chavez |Rachel Conn
On November 15, 2024, Nevada adopted a heat-illness regulation (R131-24AP) designed to protect workers from rising temperatures. Nevada’s new regulation reflects a growing trend among states implementing measures to protect workers from heat illness. In July 2024, California introduced an indoor heat illness regulation, building on its long-standing outdoor heat illness requirements. For more details on the California regulation, check out our blog post.
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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.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Andrea Chavez |Rachel Conn |Samuel Rose
The state of California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHA, is perhaps the most aggressive and enforcement-heavy approved state OSH Program in the nation. California employers face a host of requirements that other employers around the country do not. Likewise, the Cal/OSHA inspection and appeal process creates several unique landmines for California employers. Join us for our annual review of all things Cal/OSHA.
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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.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Andrea Chavez |Rachel Conn
On September 4, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the New York Retail Worker Safety Act (S8358C/A8947C), a measure designed to enhance the safety of retail workers and address the growing concerns of workplace violence in retail environments. Most provisions of the law will take effect on March 1, 2025, 180 days after its enactment. ApplicabilityThe law applies to employers with at least 10 retail employees, defined as those working in a retail store for the employer.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Andrea Chavez |Rachel Conn
We recently attended the “Heat Illness Prevention for Indoor and Outdoor Workers – What Employers Need to Know” presentation put on by Cal/OSHA’s Consultation Unit to get an idea of how Cal/OSHA plans to interpret and enforce their new regulation (Section 3396). The presentation started with an emphasis on the seriousness of heat illness, noting that heat illness is the leading climate-related killer, with over 1,000 worker heat-related illnesses in California each year.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Andrea Chavez |Eric Conn |Rachel Conn
Conn Maciel Carey LLP's 2ndAnnual Cal/OSHA and California Employment Law Summit is an in-person program conducted by the California-based attorneys in CMC's national OSHA Workplace Safety and Labor Employment Practice Groups, to update California employers on important developments involving workplace safety and health and employment law issues in California.
