Eric Conn, of the law firm, said Trump’s OSHA also will likely delay the rule’s initial July compliance deadline for reporting of worker injury and illness data, and could scrap plans for posting the data online.
“The idea that this data will be published is in question,” Conn said. “If I had to guess, I think they will maintain this rule, and the data collection but not publish it online” because of widespread industry opposition.
Significant changes to Obama-era rules are unlikely to occur while Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Labor, Andrew Puzder, head of burger chains Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., is awaiting Senate confirmation. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is scheduled to hold a hearing Feb. 7.
Once in place, Trump appointees to lead OSHA could quickly rescind the agency’s 2013 memo interpreting federal law as allowing union officials to accompany agency compliance officers on inspections of non-unionized work sites.
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