According to a former worker of Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island, the hospital was more concerned about the bottom line than its workers’ health after he was allegedly fired for complaining about asbestos exposure. James Pepe, 33, says supervisors and hospital officials repeatedly denied his requests for protective great, claiming it would “cost […]
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Andrew Finkelstein discussed the issue of non-lawyer ownership of law firms in the U.S. One of the core elements that is broken is the ownership opportunities within law firms and their ability to partner with non-lawyers. Mr. Finkelstein discussed his attempt to break down these barriers by challenging the law in order to promote innovation. […]
Fracking has triggered an oil boom in North Dakota! The new technology has made vast reserves of oil previously locked up in the state’s Bakken shale formations accessible to drillers. However, there aren’t enough pipelines in the region to transport this immense quantity of oil to other states to be refined into gasoline. Instead, companies […]
In Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to improve pedestrian safety and prevent traffic fatalities, one of his goals is to shut off the taxi meter in the middle of a fare if the driver is speeding. Taxi drivers have responded to this plan rather negatively. Taxi drivers have been at the center of the debate […]
The decision has been made to add to the list of coverage that will treat people who have been exposed to dust and fumes at Ground Zero. This decision reflects growing evidence of a link between those cancers and exposure to toxins released on September 11, 2011 at the Ground Zero site. The expansion of […]
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for U.S. government contract workers in the future. The order applies to U.S. contractors such as National Park Service concessions workers and military food-service employees, according to a White House fact sheet. The 39% increase from $7.25/hour will take […]
OSHA has recently stated that cellphone tower contractors and the companies that hire them need to strictly comply with safety standards. The warning letter followed an increase in just the past year in fatalities among tower climbers, a job once called the most dangerous in the U.S. The agency is concerned about the possibility of […]
Serious workplace safety violations led to the explosion that killed one workers and injured another at a wastewater plant in Canastota in September 2013, according to federal safety investigators. OSHA said M. Hubbard Construction, Inc. of Mottville, and a subcontractor, Joy Process Mechanical, Inc. of East Syracuse, failed to ensure safeguards and to train workers […]
A qualitative study from the Emergency Nurses Association shows that culture change and training are needed to help prevent violence against nurses. The study involved 46 emergency department nurses who wrote about their experiences with violence in the workplace. The respondents described a culture in which hospital administrators, prosecutors and judges accepted violence against nurses […]
Supporters and opponents of the state Labor Law 240, also known as the Scaffold Law, came to Albany last week to engage in lobbying combat. The law specifically impacts the lives of minority contractors and workers. Scaffold Law places heavy liability on contractors and property owners for a broad class of injuries caused by falls […]