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Congresswoman Fights to Protect Workers from Job Hazards
Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) and Education and Labor Chairman George Miller (CA-7) introduced legislation today that will direct the Department of Labor to release a standard requiring employers to pay for personal protective equipment such as respirators, chemical resistant clothing, metal mesh gloves, lifelines and lanyards, safety glasses, and face shields needed by their workers to stay safe on the job.
The measure, called the ‘‘Protective Equipment for America’s Workers Act,’’ (HR 1327) directs the U.S. Department of Labor to implement the final Occupational Safety Health Administration (OSHA) standard that has been languishing for more than seven years.
“This employer requirement is particularly important for low wage workers, many of whom are doing dangerous jobs, who rely on this equipment as their main form of protection from a wide variety of on-the-job hazards,” said Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard, who sits on the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, which has federal funding jurisdiction over the U.S. Department of Labor. Read more at house.gov.
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Also called exemplary damages, which are designed to punish a defendant whose behavior in causing the plaintiff's injuries was especially egregious.
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A party's job of convincing the decisionmaker in a trial that the party's version of the facts is true. In a civil trial, it means that the plaintiff must convince the judge or jury "by a preponderance of the evidence" that the plaintiff's version is true -- that is, over 50% of the believable evidence is in the plaintiff's favor.
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A wrong or tort. Injuries are divided into public and private; and they affect the. person, personal property, or real property.
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