March 30, 2021
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday granted the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's bid to ax a suit filed by meat processing plant workers who claimed that the agency failed to enforce COVID-19 protocols at their workplace despite receiving official complaints.
December 09, 2020
A group of workers told a Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's failure to enforce COVID-19 protocols at a Scranton-area meat processing plant underscored the importance of court intervention to ensure worker safety at the facility.
December 03, 2020
The U.S. Department of Labor's workplace safety arm will not cite a meat processing company investigated for alleged COVID-19 violations, despite a lawsuit by workers urging a Pennsylvania federal court to force the agency to make the company better protect against the disease.
September 04, 2020
The pandemic has brought with it a wave of novel employment litigation, including lawsuits accusing businesses of not adequately protecting workers, denying disability accommodations and failing to notify workers before laying them off. Here, Law360 looks at six coronavirus-related employment suits to watch.
July 29, 2020
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration accused workers at a Pennsylvania meatpacking plant on Tuesday of trying to "hijack" its inspection process through a lawsuit aimed at forcing the facility to implement basic COVID-19 precautions.
July 23, 2020
A group of workers filed suit in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday seeking to compel the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to take immediate action and force meatpacker Maid-Rite Specialty Foods to implement basic COVID-19 precautions after allegedly lax standards led to at least half the employees becoming infected.