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5 Hidden Freight Invoice Errors to Catch Before You Pay
By: Jeff Leslie Summarize this article using AI Summary Five freight invoice errors clear routine review and get paid as billed: duplicate invoices, rate mismatches, accessorials without a matching record, weight and class discrepancies, and fuel surcharge errors. This article explains how each error happens, why record-setting diesel prices make fuel surcharge errors larger, and how Freight Audit & Pay (FA&P) catches all five.
Washington State DOSH Proposes Update to Construction PPE Rules
On October 6, 2026, the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) filed a proposed rulemaking seeking to update Washington’s construction personal protective equipment (PPE) rules. Quick Hits On October 6, 2026, Washington DOSH proposed updates to construction PPE rules to align with federal OSHA requirements, including requiring employers to ensure PPE properly fits each affected employee.
Washington State DOSH Proposes Update to Construction PPE Rules
Quick Hits On October 6, 2026, Washington DOSH proposed updates to construction PPE rules to align with federal OSHA requirements, including requiring employers to ensure PPE properly fits each affected employee. The proposal also includes minor clarifications and housekeeping revisions, with public hearings in November 2026, comments due November 23, 2026, and intended adoption on March 2, 2027.
Proposed Interagency Third-Party Risk Management Guidance
On September 10, 2026, the OCC, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, and NCUA jointly proposed guidance that would rescind and fully replace the 2023 Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships: Risk Management (88 FR 37920) and its three supplemental resources. Comments are due 60 days after Federal Register publication, submitted separately to each agency’s docket.
What’s Next for the Future of TSCA Following the Fifth Circuit Court’s Landmark Decision in East Fork Enterprises, Inc. v. EPA
On September 15, 2026, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) risk management rule for methylene chloride, a widely used solvent, under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). East Fork Enterprises, Inc. v. EPA, Nos. 24-60227 & 24-60256 (5th Cir. 2026).
Oklahoma Extends Citation Deadline for Public Employer Fatality Investigations
Quick Hits Oklahoma has amended its occupational safety and health citation rule to allow the ODOL to issue citations against public employers more than six months after an alleged violation when that violation arises from a fatality investigation or when third-party conduct caused the delay. The amendment takes effect July 11, 2026, and applies to state and local government employers covered by Oklahoma’s public employee occupational safety and health program.
Employment Law & Regulatory Reform: How Financial Services Firms Can Prepare for Change
Employment Law & Regulatory Reform: How Financial Services Firms Can Prepare for Change UK Employment Rights Act 2025 and FCA Non-Financial Misconduct Guidance — Key Considerations for Financial Services Employers Financial services firms face a concentrated period of reform. The Employment Rights Act 2025[1] (the “ERA 2025”) introduces the most significant changes to UK employment law in over a decade with staggered implementation dates[2].
OSH Law Primer, Part IX: Hazard Communication | JD Supra
This is the ninth installment in a series of articles intended to provide the reader with a very high-level overview of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act of 1970 and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and how both influence workplaces in the United States. By the time this series is complete, the reader should be conversant in the subjects covered and have developed a deeper understanding of how the OSH Act and OSHA work.
Hazard Communication Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act
This is the ninth installment in a series of articles intended to provide the reader with a very high-level overview of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act of 1970 and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and how both influence workplaces in the United States. By the time this series is complete, the reader should be conversant in the subjects covered and have developed a deeper understanding of how the OSH Act and OSHA work.
Senators Introduce Bill to Improve Safety for Warehouse Workers | JD Supra
On May 2, 2024, Senators Ed Markey (D-MA), Bob Casey (D-PA), Tina Smith (D-MN), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, legislation that would limit production requirements for warehouse workers and the disciplinary measures that employers may impose for failures to meet those limits. It also proposes other health and safety requirements to protect warehouse workers.
Senators Introduce Bill to Improve Safety for Warehouse Workers
Quick Hits On May 2, 2024, four Democratic senators introduced S.4260, the Warehouse Worker Protection Act (WWPA), which would limit production requirements and prohibit discipline if those expectations are above what is allowed under the act. The bill calls for the creation of a Fairness and Transparency Office within the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division regarding implementation of regulations related to the WWPA.
OSH Law Primer, Part I: Understanding the OSH Act and OSHA | JD Supra
This is the first in a series of articles intended to provide the reader with a very high-level overview of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and how both influence workplaces in the United States. By the time this series of articles is complete, the reader should be conversant in the subjects covered and develop a deeper understanding of how the OSH Act and OSHA work.
OSH Law Primer, Part I: Understanding the OSH Act and OSHA
Quick Hits The purpose of the OSH Act is to “assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women.” The OSH Act regulates all private-sector employment and specifically exempts federal and state employers.
Texas’s HB 2127 ‘Death Star’ Law Doesn’t Strike Back Against Employers’ Workplace Safety and Health Responsibilities | JD Supra
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away … or, more precisely, last month in the Texas Capitol in Austin, Governor Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill (HB) No. 2127, the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act—a measure that his opponents have dubbed the “Death Star” law. The law will go into effect on September 1, 2023.
Texas’s HB 2127 ‘Death Star’ Law Doesn’t Strike Back Against Employers’ Workplace Safety and Health Responsibilities
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away … or, more precisely, last month in the Texas Capitol in Austin, Governor Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill (HB) No. 2127, the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act—a measure that his opponents have dubbed the “Death Star” law. The law will go into effect on September 1, 2023.
Texas’s HB 2127 ‘Death Star’ Law Doesn’t Strike Back Against Employers’ Workplace Safety and Health Responsibilities
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away … or, more precisely, last month in the Texas Capitol in Austin, Governor Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill (HB) No. 2127, the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act—a measure that his opponents have dubbed the “Death Star” law. The law will go into effect on September 1, 2023.
Hurricane eMatrix: OSHA’s Latest Guidance for Employers | JD Supra
June 28, 2023 Jeff Leslie, Brandon Strey, John Surma Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. + Follow x Following x Following - Unfollow Contact To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30 each year.
Hurricane eMatrix: OSHA’s Latest Guidance for Employers
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30 each year. This year, in mid-June, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published the “Hurricane eMatrix,” a hazard exposure and risk assessment tool that provides employers with a host of suggestions and guidance to prepare for hurricane season, and, perhaps more importantly, to prepare for the response to a hurricane that has made landfall.
Hurricane eMatrix: OSHA’s Latest Guidance for Employers
Workplace Safety and Health Share this Insight The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30 each year. This year, in mid-June, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published the “Hurricane eMatrix,” a hazard exposure and risk assessment tool that provides employers with a host of suggestions and guidance to prepare for hurricane season, and, perhaps more importantly, to prepare for the response to a hurricane that has made landfall.
Pizza, Pizza, Pizza: Is OSHA Taking a New View on Workplace Safety Incentive Programs? (Podcast)
In this podcast, members of Ogletree Deakins’ Workplace Safety and Health Practice Group discuss safety incentive programs and how the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) may be taking a new view of them, as evidenced by a 2023 post by OSHA that asked, “Is your pizza party incentive program unreasonable?” The speakers, Jeff Leslie, John Surma, and Karen Tynan—who is chair of the firm’s West Coast OSHA practice—review various types of incentive programs and what employers can...
OSHA Recordkeeping Proposal Would Expand the Ranks of Employers Required to Submit Injury and Illness Data | JD Supra
On April 7, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) submitted its latest injury and illness recordkeeping proposal to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). The proposed changes to the injury and illness recordkeeping rules hark back to the agency’s more onerous 2016 regulation, which required employers with 250 or more employees in certain designated industries to electronically submit information from their OSHA Forms 300, 301, and 300A once a year.
OSHA Recordkeeping Proposal Would Expand the Ranks of Employers Required to Submit Injury and Illness Data
On April 7, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) submitted its latest injury and illness recordkeeping proposal to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). The proposed changes to the injury and illness recordkeeping rules hark back to the agency’s more onerous 2016 regulation, which required employers with 250 or more employees in certain designated industries to electronically submit information from their OSHA Forms 300, 301, and 300A once a year.
OSHA Recordkeeping Proposal Would Expand the Ranks of Employers Required to Submit Injury and Illness Data
On April 7, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) submitted its latest injury and illness recordkeeping proposal to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). The proposed changes to the injury and illness recordkeeping rules hark back to the agency’s more onerous 2016 regulation, which required employers with 250 or more employees in certain designated industries to electronically submit information from their OSHA Forms 300, 301, and 300A once a year.
OSHA Serves Up a Slice of Confusion: Can an Employer’s Pizza Party Workplace Safety Incentive Program Be ‘Unreasonable’? | JD Supra
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently posted a tweet with the following question: “Is your pizza party incentive program unreasonable?” Setting aside the frontal attack on arguably one of the most revered of all cultural experiences in America—the pizza party—questions regarding safety incentive programs are recurring among employers. And OSHA hasn’t entirely made its position clear.
OSHA Serves Up a Slice of Confusion: Can an Employer’s Pizza Party Workplace Safety Incentive Program Be ‘Unreasonable’?
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently posted a tweet with the following question: “Is your pizza party incentive program unreasonable?” Setting aside the frontal attack on arguably one of the most revered of all cultural experiences in America—the pizza party—questions regarding safety incentive programs are recurring among employers. And OSHA hasn’t entirely made its position clear.
OSHA Serves Up a Slice of Confusion: Can an Employer’s Pizza Party Workplace Safety Incentive Program Be ‘Unreasonable’?
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently posted a tweet with the following question: “Is your pizza party incentive program unreasonable?” Setting aside the frontal attack on arguably one of the most revered of all cultural experiences in America—the pizza party—questions regarding safety incentive programs are recurring among employers. And OSHA hasn’t entirely made its position clear.
Justice Department Memo Raises the Stakes for Workplace Safety–Related Investigations | JD Supra
On September 9, 2015, then U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates issued a memo, “Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing,” that sent shivers down the spines of those in the workplace safety community. The essence of that memo was that for an employer to obtain relief during a criminal prosecution, it had to “cooperate completely” in holding individuals accountable.
Justice Department Memo Raises the Stakes for Workplace Safety-Related Investigations
On September 9, 2015, then U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates issued a memo, “Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing,” that sent shivers down the spines of those in the workplace safety community. The essence of that memo was that for an employer to obtain relief during a criminal prosecution, it had to “cooperate completely” in holding individuals accountable.
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