Contact your Members of Congress and Help Us to Repeal this OSHA Rule
This week, legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to block an OSHA rule that would allow OSHA to issue citations for recordkeeping violations beyond the current six month limit, up to five and a half years. This expansion of the statute of limitations from six months to five and a half years exposes employers to unfair liability for honest and inadvertent paperwork mistakes related to recordkeeping. Please contact your federal elected officials and urge them to support repeal of this burdensome rule.
The December 2016 rule was issued in response to a federal court ruling that OSHA could no longer issue citations beyond the six month statute of limitation window. The rule is often referred to as the “Volks” rule after the construction company that successfully challenged the rule in court in 2012. Prior to the bill’s introduction, a broad representation of 73 employer organizations joined AGC in a letter urging Congress to swiftly disapprove of the Volks Rule.
For more information, contact Jim Young at [email protected] or (202) 547-0133.