Exclusive: Most U.S. firms hit with COVID-19 safety fines aren’t paying up
U.S. workplace safety regulators have announced more than $4 million in penalties on more than 300 employers they say put workers at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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DHS seizes over 11 million counterfeit 3M N95 masks, more raids to come (video)
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced that it seized more than 11 million counterfeit 3M N95 respirator masks that were destined for frontline health-care workers.
Anger over transparency missing from bill on health worker COVID-19 data (video)
After waiting months for a bill that was supposed to shed light on coronavirus infections and deaths among health care workers, advocates for the workers argue that the bill was gutted once Trenton lobbyists got their hands on it.
Counterfeit N95 Scam Widens as Senator Demands FTC Investigation
A key U.S. senator is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate N95 mask fraud and federal agents announced the seizure of 1.7 million more counterfeit 3M masks in the New York borough of Queens as the breadth of
’The worst of the worst’: Massive counterfeit N95 mask operation busted in Queens warehouse
A Queens warehouse manager was busted after investigators discovered his building was filled with millions of counterfeit N95 masks, prosecutors said Thursday.
Health Workers and Hospitals Grapple With Millions of Counterfeit N95 Masks
Thousands of counterfeit 3M respirators have slipped past U.S. investigators in recent months, making it to the cheeks and chins of health care workers and perplexing experts who say their quality is not vastly inferior to the real thing.
After lobbyists step in, a health workers’ COVID transparency bill is gutted. How it changed
Hospital lobbyists met with the bill’s primary sponsor and legislative aides several times last year pushing for changes to the bill that would have required daily reporting on the Department of Health’s website of COVID’s impact on health care workers..
Hospitals, nursing homes will have to track COVID cases, death among its workforce under new N.J. law
Hospitals, surgery centers, long-term care facilities and home healthcare agencies must collect the number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities among their employees and report them on a bimonthly basis to the state Department of Health.
2021 New Leader Orientation Sessions – Registration Links
Click on the time session link to register for the class that you are interested in. Who We Are: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 10 AM to 11:30 AM 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Member Representation: Tuesday, February 23, 2021
COVID vaccine ‘isn’t the flu shot’: Vaccinators explain why NJ rollout is slow
Demand far outstrips supply currently. The state has been allocated far fewer doses than the number of people who want them. More than a million have registered for the vaccine at covidvaccine.nj.gov, while about 600,000 vaccine doses have been received