Fordham Law School Professor James Brudney spoke with The Republic on the Labor Department’s tightening of reporting requirements on workplace deaths and severe injuries.
James Brudney, a labor and employment law professor at Fordham University in New York, said many states already have such requirements on the books and “this strikes me as a relatively modest reform.”
“I think the point of reporting requirements is to both give the federal agency that’s charged with assuring or improving workplace safety adequate, complete data, and also, the businesses involved have the opportunity, by gathering this data, to reflect a little bit on what’s happening in their own businesses,” Brudney said.