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Essential Corporate News – Week ending 23 May 2025
The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Annotation) Regulations 2025 and an accompanying Explanatory Memorandum were published on 14 May 2025.
United States | Publication | July 2022
The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced on June 30, 2022, that it is extending its Revised National Emphasis Program for COVID-19 (NEP) until further notice. This occurs as OSHA continues to work on a permanent COVID healthcare standard.
Originally launched in March 2021, the NEP focuses enforcement efforts on companies that put the largest number of workers at "serious risk" of COVID infection. It also addresses employers who retaliate against workers who complain about unsafe or unhealthful conditions in the workplace.
OSHA also announced it is increasing its COVID-related inspection goal from five to 10 percent of total inspections. Citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's reporting on increased national COVID hospitalization rates since April 2022, OSHA is prioritizing inspections at workplaces with higher exposure potential. These include hospitals, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, other healthcare and emergency response facilities and meat and poultry processing plants.
Since the onset of the pandemic in February 2020, OSHA has issued over 1,200 COVID-related citations and assessed penalties totaling US$7.2 million. OSHA has also pursued employers for claims of retaliation by over 400 workers who raised concerns about COVID, resulting in over US$5 million in monetary awards to the employees.
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The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Annotation) Regulations 2025 and an accompanying Explanatory Memorandum were published on 14 May 2025.
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The Regulator’s annual funding statement for private sector DB schemes was published on April 29, 2025. It is the first such statement since the new DB funding regime came into force from September 22, 2024, onwards.
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On April 29, 2025, Minister for Pensions Torsten Bell confirmed that new regulations will be laid in the autumn to allow for multi-employer collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes to be established. The related press release can be read here.
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