"Racial and age stereotyping has no place in hiring decisions; it is illegal, demoralizing, and deprives the workplace of invaluable knowledge, experience and creativity,” said EEOC District Director Delner Franklin-Thomas.
"These informal stakeholder meetings and written comments from stakeholders will help give OSHA direction to develop innovative ideas that will allow employers, workers and researchers to participate in improving occupational safety and health through the use of occupational injury and illness data," said OSHA chief Dr. David Michaels.
According to suit, on several occasions throughout her employment, the cleaning team supervisor's district manager told her that he wanted a male supervisor at the worksite.
After being fired for reporting FAA violations, the pilot filed a complaint with OSHA alleging retaliation under the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century, the aviation industry whistleblower law.
To do this, it asks users to answer a few relevant questions and then generates a customized list of federal disability nondiscrimination laws that likely apply, along with easy-to-understand information about employers' responsibilities under each of them.
As a result of an October 2009 inspection in Cincinnati, OSHA issued Lowe's four willful citations with a proposed penalty of $40,000. Based on a November 2009 inspection, OSHA issued the Dayton store seven willful citations with a proposed penalty of $70,000.
Failing to hear smoke detectors and take quick action is the major reason adults 65 or older are more than twice as likely as any other age group to die in a home fire.
EEOC Houston Regional Attorney Jim Sacher said, “Employees have an absolute right to be free from discriminatory harassment in the workplace. The EEOC will vigorously challenge violations of this statutory right.”
Available to the public as a webcast, the May 18-20 event stems from recent incidents including the Colgan Air flight 3407 crash in February 2009.
With the exception of three 13-year-olds, the 1,482 minors the company employed were 14 and 15 years of age.
Recruited patients were instructed to claim they had certain symptoms to trigger medically unnecessary tests, which Medicare then performed.
Sleep problems were most apparent in workers in their 30s and 40s. Former shiftworkers had more sleep problems than those who had never done shiftwork.
Safety organizations are helping employers prepare for the June 15 compliance date for Bill 168, which applies to all workplaces in the province where more than five workers are regularly employed.
“We welcome the decision to settle this case in a way that ensures that these brave firefighters, who do heroic work, do not receive different retirement benefits simply because of their age,” said EEOC Chair Jacqueline A. Berrien.
Enhancing the week's impact, the event is being held in conjunction with Workers Memorial Day, April 28, which traditionally serves as a nationwide day of remembrance to recognize U.S. workers who die and become disabled each year on the job.
"Although it is not possible to give a universal prescription for preventing stress at work, it is possible to offer guidelines on the process of stress prevention in organizations," NIOSH says.
According to OSHA, in February 2008, the railroad brought an employee up on charges for missing work after suffering a work-related illness from witnessing a fatal accident involving another worker.
The lawsuit alleges that Orrin H. Cope, Linda D. Cope, and Orrin H. Cope Produce Inc. made four withdrawals from an employee pension plan between July 2007 and March 2008, and transferred the funds to Orrin H. Cope Produce Inc.
While many people understand the increased crash risks caused by drivers texting while driving, the lack of understanding about the dangers of hands-free phones remains a challenge, says the council, which has produced a study explaining the limitations of the human brain as it pertains to multitasking.
During FY 2009, field inspectors conducted 59 inspections of high-hazard federal worksites and found 336 violations of OSHA safety and health standards -- more than twice the number cited in 2008.