Why Tesla Could Face Tough Road If It Tries to Slash $137M Racial Bias Verdict October 7, 2021 By Daniel Wiessner Tesla Inc. will likely seek to slash a $137 million jury award for a Black worker who accused the automaker...
Lawsuit Accuses United Airlines of Refusing Employee Exemptions to Vaccine Mandate September 27, 2021 By Daniel Wiessner United Airlines Inc is facing claims that it unlawfully denied religious and medical exemptions from a requirement that employees receive...
Rarely-Used Emergency Workplace Rule Is Key to Biden Vaccine Plan September 15, 2021 By Tom Hals and Daniel Wiessner U.S. President Joe Biden’s plan requiring more than 100 million Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 relies on a rarely...
Judge Temporarily Blocks New York Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers September 15, 2021 By Daniel Wiessner A U.S. judge in New York on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a requirement that healthcare workers receive...
OSHA Urges Employers to Require Vaccinated Workers to Wear Masks August 16, 2021 By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. agency that regulates workplace safety issued guidance on Friday urging employers to require many fully vaccinated workers to...
McDonald’s Franchise Settles Workers’ COVID-19 Lawsuit August 13, 2021 By Daniel Wiessner A McDonald’s Corp. franchise in Oakland, California, has agreed to take steps to protect workers from COVID-19 to settle a...
Federal Employees Allowed to Return to Offices Without Vaccinations June 14, 2021 By Daniel Wiessner U.S. government employees should not be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to their workplace or made to...
Labor Department Eyes Simpler Rule for Classifying Independent Contractors September 23, 2020 By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday said it would soon propose a rule that could make it easier to...
Lawsuit Over Worker Safety at Smithfield’s Missouri Pork Plant Dismissed May 7, 2020 By Daniel Wiessner A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a worker advocacy group’s lawsuit accusing Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s largest pork processor,...
Trump Administration Defends Workplace Safety Record During Coronavirus Crisis May 1, 2020 By Daniel Wiessner and Tom Hals U.S. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia on Thursday defended his department’s handling of workplace safety during the coronavirus pandemic, saying “the...