The two-year bipartisan budget President Obama signed on November 2, 2015, required OSHA to raise its citation penalties for the first time in 25 years. Since 1990, OSHA has been one of only three federal agencies that were specifically exempted from a law that required federal agencies to raise their fines to keep pace with inflation. A section of the budget bill β entitled the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 β eliminates this exemption for OSHA. This provision will be implemented through an interim final rule scheduled for publication in the July 1, 2016 edition of the Federal Register. OSHA will assess the new penalty amounts starting August 1, 2016.
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