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Lori Chavez-dermer praises last week told the congress leaders that a stricter Osha would be as effective as the current version to protect the country's workers.
The goal of Chavez deremer underlined President Donald Trump's goal of eliminating what it described in the Federal Government's expenditure as waste and abuse, and answered questions on June 5 from the house training and staff committee on topics that are of crucial importance for the construction of budget and heat safety.
“My department is hard to work with the departments for trade and education to exploit the potential of the American employee. We want to strengthen registered apprenticeships, invest the development programs of the workforce and invest in opportunities that meet the employees for the current labor market,” said Chavez deremer in their opening statement.
The Ministry of Labor has proposed Assign GD 2026 budget assignments $ 582.4 million for Osha, compared to $ 632.3 million in the previous year. It would also reduce the number of full -time employees from 1,810 to 1,587.
When asked about the proposed employees of the US MP Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Who quoted the often used statistics that Osha employees would take almost 200 years to attend every US workplace, emphasized that members of the OSHA and the wage and hourly department of DOL are essential workers. As a result, you must not take the ministry's resigned withdrawal program for the efficiency of the Ministry for Efficiency, said Chavez deremer.
“American workers can expect the Ministry of Labor to protect the American worker as this is a core mission of the Ministry of Labor,” she said.
When the US MP Lucy McBath, D-GA., The department asked for problems such as wage theft with a smaller budget and fewer workers, said Chavez deremer, she believed that the budget would “modernize and rationalize” the department.
“If we equate the budget and say that the problem will solve more and more money? I probably wouldn't have to agree there,” she said.
When Trump won the elections in 2024, it seemed that the Proposed Osha heat safety rule Would probably never come to an end, at least not in the form of bidges.
Critics of the standard said that it was too detailed and prescribing what it can make and problematic for compliance with regulations. Security lawyers say too often Water is refused to work And calm breaks in the absence of a standard.