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DOL must reply to suit on safety equipment.

Publication: HRMagazine
Publication Date: 01-APR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: DOL must reply to suit on safety equipment.(Department of Labor)(Occupational Safety and Health Administration)(United Food and Commercial Workers International Union)

Article Excerpt
It's not every day that a vending machine attracts much notice, but a vending machine stocked with earplugs drew the attention of Jackie Nowell, director of the occupational safety and health office for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). Shouldn't the employer be providing these to workers for free instead of making employees purchase them, even when they hadn't turned their earplugs back in and then misplaced them, she wondered.

When Nowell asked a federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) official this question, she said the official...

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