With OSHA Rule in Limbo, Lawyers Advise Readiness, Patience
Big employers may be feeling some relief now that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has scrapped a July 1 deadline for them to submit employee illness and injury reports to an online public database that was mandated under the Obama administration.
June 30, 2017 at 12:34 AM
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Big employers may be feeling some relief now that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has scrapped a July 1 deadline for them to submit employee illness and injury reports to an online public database that was mandated under the Obama administration.
But the Trump administration has not yet said how it plans to proceed beyond the indefinite delay, prompting some labor and employment lawyers to advise their clients to take a wait-and-see approach. One possible scenario: Trump's OSHA could undo the Obama-imposed regulatory requirement altogether.
“We don't know what's going to happen,” conceded Modinat “Abby” Kotun, a Haynes and Boone lawyer in Houston who authored a recent practice alert on the issue along with partner Matthew Deffebach. “No harm in just waiting to see what happens.”
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