The Supreme Court made it easier to haul businesses into court, ruling that investors can sue them for purposefully withholding damaging information about a product and that employees can sue for retaliation without having to make a written complaint. The …
The Supreme Court made it easier to haul businesses into court, ruling this week that investors can sue them for purposefully withholding damaging information about a product and that employees can sue them for retaliation without having to make a …
Lawyers for Merck & Co. told the Supreme Court this week that investors waited too late and didn’t do all of the necessary investigations to sue the drug maker over whether it properly warned about the risks of its blockbuster …
The number of workers killed on the job annually dropped to an historic low in 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last month. The number of worker deaths dropped to 5,488 last year — the fewest since the Bureau …
The number of workers killed on the job annually dropped to a historic low in 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Wednesday. The number of worker deaths dropped to 5,488 last year — the fewest since the Bureau of …
People can get more prison time for mail fraud than for violating safety standards that can kill workers, Democratic senators said this week as they called for tougher punishment for workplace fatalities and stricter enforcement from the Occupational Safety and …
Defying White House veto threats, the Democratic-controlled House this week passed sweeping mine safety legislation aimed at preventing future underground disasters like the one that took nine lives last year at Crandall Canyon mine in Utah. Republican and mining industry …
Employers will have to pay the full cost for almost all personal safety equipment used by their workers, the Labor Department said recently, a move advocates say will prevent thousands of on-the-job injuries. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule, …
Employers will have to pay the full cost for almost all personal safety equipment used by their workers, the Labor Department said recently, a move advocates say will prevent thousands of on-the-job injuries. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule, …
That buttery taste and smell of microwave popcorn may have caused a deadly lung disease in workers who package it. While there’s no evidence of any danger to the millions of people who eat it, Congress is taking action. Rather …
