Word: osha
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...last week’s column. Barbed e-mails, icy stares and sternly worded voicemails were Gossip Guy’s reward for a week of relationship-ending lies, emasculating innuendos and official university policy violating rumors in recognition of Valentine’s Day. And, unsurprisingly, OSHA was nowhere to be found...
...this case, we're talking about someone who sought protection under the ADA for what appears to be a work-related health problem. This doesn't appear to me to be so much related to the ADA but rather to OSHA. Unfortunately, the Bush administration has narrowed the reach of OSHA - and so now there's really no provisions at all for people with work-related disabilities...
...tough enough these days, as any American builder can attest, to comply with regulations of the EPA, EEOC, OSHA and a Scrabble board of other U.S. agencies. But when Marasco proposed his International Gateway of the Americas--$225 million worth of shops, restaurants, offices and hotel rooms spread over 67 acres--he also had to deal with U.S. Customs, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the federal, state and city governments on the Mexican side. Marasco observes that "it requires a great deal of, um, flexibility...
After 10 years of study (initiated by Elizabeth Dole), OSHA finalized workplace rules to combat repetitive-stress injuries. Annual cost to businesses? An estimated $4.5 billion. With Bush's support, congressional Republicans repealed the rules before Dems could blink. Big business may now lose $9.1 billion annually in workers' compensation and lost productivity. Some in Congress are asking OSHA to try again...
...Unconvinced small businesses need OSHA's "silly goggle rule" b) Sure that no one can see him c) Being given a tour of a factory in Beaver, Pa. d) About to sing a duet with Eminem...