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Faulting Judge, DOL Urges Court To Back OSHA's Expanded Inspection

August 23, 2016 at 4:42 PM
The Labor Department (DOL) is urging a federal court to reject a magistrate judge's landmark recommendation to limit an OSHA inspection of a poultry processing facility to the circumstances of an employee's injury, in a case that worker advocates say could severely limit the agency's enforcement authority. In an Aug. 19 filing , DOL argued that the agency's plan to expand the inspection beyond the circumstances of the employee's injury stems from a neutral enforcement policy, and that the scope...

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