By Adam R. Young and Aaron M. Gillett
1. A Nightmare Acquisition
Your Company has recently acquired a small logistics company with a strong business reputation. Eighteen days after the acquisition was finalized, you receive a call that there has been a tragic forklift accident in a warehouse operated by a subsidiary of the newly acquired target company. An employee
Continue Reading Forgotten Due Diligence: Overlooked Occupational Safety & Health, OSHA Liabilities During M&A TransactionsBy Erin Dougherty Foley and Craig B. Simonsen
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Center for Motor Vehicle Safety (CMVS), through its NIOSH Science Blog, recently featured the Drive Safely Work Week campaign. The event is scheduled for this week, October 5-9, 2015.
Drive Safely Work Week is sponsored by the Network of Employers for Traffic
Continue Reading NIOSH Drive Safely Work Week 2015 – Is Your Company (and its Policies) Ready?
By Erin Dougherty Foley and Craig B. Simonsen
In a recent “shinny” blog by Jesse Lawder, the U.S. DOL’s Chief of Staff (Acting), Office of Public Affairs, we are told – again – that an “open, transparent government is one of the hallmarks of democracy.” It seems, though, that the government is shining its lights on business interests.
Lawder’s purpose
Continue Reading DOL Online Enforcement Database Looks Closely at Industry and Corporate Trends