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Coming full circle: Closing Loopholes No 2 reinstates the common law tests
On 7 December 2023, Parliament passed the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes Act 2023),
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United States | Publication | September 2022
The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is contemplating several and extensive changes to its existing Process Safety Management (PSM) standard and will seek public comments.
Broadly speaking, the PSM standard requires employers to implement safety programs that identify, evaluate and control highly hazardous chemicals.
Contemplated changes to the current PSM standard will:
Modifications and amendments to multiple provisions of the current PSM standard are also contemplated, including:
Interested stakeholders may participate in a meeting that will be held virtually from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm ET on Wednesday, October 12, 2022. Registration is online. Those wishing to make comments in the meeting, which are limited to three minutes, must so indicate at the time of registration.
Stakeholders may also submit written comments electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Any comments or materials submitted must identify OSHA's docket number for the stakeholder meeting (OSHA-2013-0020). Comments are due no later than November 14, 2022. Comments submitted may be made publicly available, so OSHA cautions against submitting personal information.
View more detailed information about the upcoming stakeholder meeting and related issues.
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On 7 December 2023, Parliament passed the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes Act 2023),
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Starting in 2022, the Government of Canada has introduced three waves of amendments to the Competition Act (Act) resulting in the most significant revisions to Canada’s competition laws in over a decade.
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Since January 1, 2024, federal legislation in Canada requires companies of a certain size that produce, sell, distribute or import goods into Canada to file a report by May 31 each year regarding the risks of forced labour and child labour in their business and supply chains and the efforts taken to reduce those risks.
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