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...homes. But as is the case with most areas of society transformed by recent technologies, the telecommuting phenomenon poses a host of uncertainties for federal regulators. Rarely has this been more drastic than with Labor's handling of home-office safety. First Labor's Occupational Health and Safety Agency (OSHA) sent a "letter of interpretation" to a California firm in November, making the firm responsible for keeping its employees' home offices in line with federal office safety standards. These letters traditionally constitute agency policy...
...because employers are spared a host of expenses when workers stay at home it's only fair that they ante-up their share to keep the workplace safe. And some business groups are calling Herman's backpeddling insincere and ineffectual since these advisories traditionally set national precedents. "Despite what OSHA says, this is clearly a change of policy," said Ed Petter, president of the Employment Policy Foundation. The real coup for the laptop-reliant worker: When employers are forced to have ergonomically correct chairs installed at Starbucks...
...year-old business-school graduate and you believe the Internet is going to be bigger than the Industrial Revolution, why not try to become Henry Ford? If you're an entrepreneur, why waste your time in the old world, worrying about manufacturing things and dealing with unions and OSHA inspections, when you can put your company online in three months? Why have a boss when you and three buddies can build your own publicly traded company in two years? Windows this big don't open very often. That's the reason people are flocking to the Valley, from Wall Street...
...response to union complaints, a team from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) came to Widener yesterday to take another set of air samples from several offices that had been exposed to silica dust...
...Though OSHA has not yet concluded whether the air is safe, O'Brien says they did advise the Widener management to better inform its employees about safety concerns...