Canada’s Regulation SOR/2023-78, which comes into force on December 15, 2023, will require employers to provide free menstrual products for employees’ use in each toilet room in federally regulated workplaces.
The California budget bill currently under consideration in Sacramento contains a startling and momentous provision: reinstatement of the California Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC).
For the past several years, we have reported on employment and labor laws taking effect mid-year. Increasingly, new compliance challenges are not taking a summer vacation.
On June 8, 2023, the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare published the Official Mexican Standard NOM-037-STPS-2023 Telework-Safety and Health Conditions at Work in the Official Gazette of the Federation.
El 08 de junio de 2023, la Secretaría de Trabajo y Previsión Social publicó en el Diario Oficial de la Federación la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-037-STPS-2023 Teletrabajo-Condiciones de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo.
Employers can also prepare for Oregon’s fast-approaching wildfire season by developing strategies to address many employment and workplace safety laws that will come into play this season.
On May 1, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a new National Emphasis Program (NEP) to prevent and reduce workplace falls.
On March 29, 2023, the province published Regulation 61/23 amending Regulation 213/91: Construction Projects under the Occupational Health & Safety Act (Regulation). The amendments will come into force on July 1, 2023.
We are particularly concerned about employees potentially endangering themselves or others if they are using our equipment while impaired, but we are unsure what to do in these circumstances. Can you help?