While Everyone Was Focused on the Shutdown, the White House Rolled Back Worker Safety Rules

[Stonepounder]

http://fortune.com/2019/01/30/white-house-worker-safety-rules/?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=fortunemagazine&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3p7PU-Ku-brDvfUeEPTjFlWvXhTaa-qcBijkGDzP2BwMc1PkgjlilPRyU

While Everyone Was Focused on the Shutdown, the White House Rolled Back Worker Safety Rules

President Donald Trump may have run his 2016 campaign as a champion of the working class, but his administration seems to be chipping away at worker protections.

During the president’s 35-day partial shutdown of the federal government, the White House quietly dissolved a 2016 regulation requiring certain employers to electronically submit reports of workplace injuries to the Department of Labor.

The Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses regulation, enacted under the Obama administration, required employers to submit injury and illness data to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The data would be used to help determine unsafe work conditions, and the public disclosure of workplace injuries was intended to urge employers to improve safety in the workplace. The rule also protected workers from retaliation from employers when reporting.

Trump officials first stalled the electronic reporting rule in 2017, and amended it last summer to drop the requirement for employers to submit detailed injury reports to OSHA, Vox reports. The final amendment was reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget over the course of just six weeks, and published on Jan. 25, during the shutdown.

[SunSeeker]

1. That is so fucked up!