A Missouri grain cooperative could have prevented an employee’s fatal engulfment in a storage bin in May 2024 had it followed federal workplace safety requirements, the U.S. Department of Labor determined. Responding to the employer’s report of a worker fatality, investigators with the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration learned that three employees of MFA … Read more
American Airlines Group Inc. agreed to a $50 million civil penalty to resolve claims by the Biden administration that the carrier violated US rules protecting airline passengers with disabilities. A US Transportation Department investigation found that American damaged or delayed the return of thousands of passenger wheelchairs, the department said in a statement on Wednesday. … Read more
A follow-up inspection by federal workplace safety investigators in April 2024 found a Janesville, Wisconsin recycling company continuing to expose employees to unsafe levels of lead and cadmium while they dismantled cathode ray tubes from older TVs, despite being cited for the same violations in April 2023. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and … Read more
In a big ruling that has caught the eye of companies and regulators alike, Uber has been slapped with a record-breaking £245 million nice by the Dutch Information Safety Authority (DPA) for violating the Basic Information Safety Regulation (GDPR). The penalty underscores the growing scrutiny that European regulators are making use of to US tech … Read more
