Occupational Safety & Health Administration

Arkansas employers find themselves caught between federal mandates and a new state law. read more >

Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson last week held his nose and allowed to become law without his signature two identical bills, SB739 and HB1977, that allow employees to opt out of workplace vaccination requirements. read more >

Arkansas employers have grappled with decisions about whether to mandate COVID-19 vaccines. Soon, some employers will no longer have much choice. read more >

The thought that the federal government is reaching down, via the OSHA and other mechanisms, to put this amount of pressure on employers to vaccinate their employees is remarkable. read more >

As COVID-19 has upended the economy and caused more than 100,000 deaths across the country, it also has altered employment law from safety to workers’ compensation issues. read more >

A Gravette church that boasts of broadcasting daily on more than 150 TV stations in North America recently settled a whistleblower lawsuit for $62,500. read more >

More companies are embracing the notion that on-the-job training is good business. Under that banner, members of the central Arkansas construction community are banding together to fill employment gaps in their ranks. read more >

Contractors, builders and construction executives say accident prevention keeps costs and accidents down at work sites. Having a safety director on a job site could help prevent worker injuries, said Richard Hedgecock, the executive vice president of the Associated General Contractors Arkansas, the state’s largest commercial construction trade association. read more >

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration has not completed its investigation of a fire at an Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies facility that killed a worker July 17. read more >