(Program to be published in Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal)
One of the most criticized federal agencies in all of the federal government is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Through a combination of a stultifying statutory scheme, lack of funding, and lack of political will, this agency has managed to only pass around forty permanent safety and health workplace standards in the last thirty-seven years. The purpose of this panel is to consider to what degree OSHA and its related agencies should be reformed to better meet the purpose of the OSHAct, which is to protect employee safety and health in the workplace. The panel consists of the former director of National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and three law professors who will address: the actions of the International Labour Organization (ILO) as a way to figure out ways we might reform our own regulatory processes; OSHA problems through the lens of immigration law; and one of the more unsatisfactory aspects of the current law, whistleblower protection.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.