• House Overturns OSHA’s 2015 Recordkeeping Amendment Stemming from the Volks Case

    House Republicans call the amendment, which the agency claimed clarified a long-standing position that the duty to record an injury or illness continues for as long as the employer must keep records of the recordable injury or illness, “an unlawful power grab.”

    In one of the first in what probably will be a long line of changes for recent regulations and amendments promulgated by OSHA during the Obama administration, the U.S. House of Representatives on March 1 passed H. J. Res 83, a resolution of disapproval, under the Congressional Review Act. Introduced by Rep.

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