The Labor Department disabled the site for submitting records on employee injuries and deaths so tech experts can evaluate any security problems.
Workers’ Rights
In the ceaseless push for profits, corporate accountability and safety often take a back seat.
Navy, Coast Guard continue awarding contracts to VT Halter despite safety lapses
“I have no doubt that a Navy policy to stop giving contracts to shipbuilding firms that flaunt the law and injure workers would save many lives and limbs,” said David Michaels, former head of Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Trump’s pick for wage chief sued for stiffing house cleaners
Currently head of the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce, Cheryl Stanton was named last year in a lawsuit alleging she failed to pay her house cleaners.
Trump proposes dumping protections for shipyard, construction workers
President Donald Trump’s Labor Department has proposed scrapping key protections intended to protect shipyard and construction workers from exposure to beryllium, a toxic mineral that can cause deadly lung disease.
Timeline of Uber troubles traces CEO’s downfall
Amid the cascade of Uber scandals, it’s hard to keep track of them all. Little ones get lost – like the time, last year, when a federal judge berated Uber for using unlicensed private investigators to fraudulently dig up dirt on a conservationist who had sued the company. To help keep track of the mess, here’s a timeline of Uber’s more recent troubles.
Senators want probe of Labor Department secrecy and policy delays
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Patty Murray and other lawmakers have called on the Labor Department’s inspector general to investigate why the agency stopped posting press releases about major workplace safety violations after President Donald Trump took office.
Objecting to sexual harassment got me fired, says ex-Uber employee
A former Uber employee claimed he was fired last year after sticking up for female colleagues facing sexual harassment, according to a formal complaint that has not previously been made public.
OSHA to companies: Don’t send us your employee injury logs
The agency stated this week that it “is not accepting electronic submissions of injury and illness logs at this time, and intends to propose extending the July 1, 2017 date by which certain employers are required to submit the information.”
‘This is a man’s job’ remark leads to settlement, but manager stays
The manager still works at Automation Personnel Services, a Alabama-based temp agency, where rampant discrimination was found in a Reveal investigation.
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