Utah
Manufacturers Association Leadership
Changes
Friday, March 23, 2012
The Utah Manufacturers Association Board Chairman Dean Clark
announced today that UMA President Thomas E. Bingham intends to retire
effective June 1, 2012. Clark said, “Tom Bingham has served extremely well
as the UMA President since 2000 and has grown the organization both in size and
stature while at the helm of this 107 year old association of
manufacturers.”
“The UMA Executive Committee and an appointed Search
Committee has known of Tom’s retirement plans since last November. It was Tom’s
desire to finish the 2012 UMA legislative work without a public announcement to
avoid any distractions to the UMA legislative agenda,” Clark explained. For
months, the UMA has been involved in an extensive but somewhat quiet search for
a new president with proven experience in the Utah Legislative process as well
as trade association leadership.
After an exhaustive search, the UMA Board, at its March
22nd meeting also unanimously appointed Todd R. Bingham as the new
President of the Utah Manufacturers Association, effective June 1,
2012. “We believe we have hired the very
best qualified person in Utah for our new president. Todd is highly respected
on Utah’s Capitol Hill and within Utah regulatory agencies. We are excited to
have Todd take the reins at UMA, the premier champion of manufacturing in
Utah,” Clark said.
Todd Bingham has served as President of the Utah Mining
Association for the past three years where he has worked closely with many
companies who have membership in both the Mining and Manufacturers
associations. He has extensive trade association management and legislative
experience spanning eighteen years in Utah, including the Associated General
Contractors of Utah, American Concrete Pavement Association, Associated
Builders and Contractors, Utah Farm Bureau Federation and Utah Mining
Association.
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NEW POWER PLANTS' CARBON POLLUTION
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RIGHT
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NLRB POSTER DEADLINE IS STILL APRIL 30
Employers Council
The
twice-delayed effective date of the newly required National Labor
Relations Board's (NLRB) "Employee Rights” poster for virtually all private
employers is still April 30, 2012, despite ongoing legal actions.
At a hearing on March 2, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the
District
of Columbia upheld the NLRB's authority to require the posting. The court also
upheld a provision in the NLRB rule stating that failure to post can be deemed evidence
of an employer's antiunion animus when an employer's motive is at issue in an
unfair labor practice proceeding, but decided that a failure to post is not
automatically an unfair labor practice and does not automatically toll the
statute of limitations in unfair labor practice actions.
The
court’s ruling is on appeal. Now is the time to get prepared to post on
April 30th. You can download a free NLRB poster at http://www.nlrb.gov/poster.
Even better, you can support The Employers Council and get into compliance by
ordering updated combined stateand-federal or federal-only posters from us! The
posters include the NLRB notice (which may also need to be
posted
in languages other than English – see our August
29, 2011 newsletter). See the attached order
form.
NOT "IN THE
COURSE OF" EMPLOYMENT
Employers Council
The Utah Court of
Appeals recently let stand a Utah Labor Commission Appeals Board ruling that a
house painter was not "in the course of" employment, for the purposes
of workers' compensation benefits, when he was injured. As a result, he is not
entitled to benefits. After painting for several hours inside a house, the
painter spent the next two hours consuming a small bottle of whiskey and more
than half a fifth of vodka on the premises. Then slept for two hours in a first
floor closet. After waking, he made his way up to the second floor and, without
resuming any work, fell into an empty elevator shaft and injured himself. An
ALJ held that his accident was in the course of employment because the
"accident occurred at
his job site during the
work day." The Board, however, reversed – and the Utah Court of Appeals
refused to disturb the Board's ruling. That ruling denied workers' compensation
benefits, finding that the worker:
• Had
stopped performing any work or any activities incidental to work and had
completely removed himself from his job duties; and
• Had
not returned to the course of employment when he awoke and began moving around
the site.
The Utah Workers'
Compensation Act grants workers' compensation benefits to employees injured in
accidents "arising out of and in the course of" employment. In a 1993
case, the Utah Court of Appeals said, "[A]n injury occurs 'in the course
of' employment when it takes place
(1) within the period of
employment, (2) at a place where the employee reasonably may be in the
performance of [his] duties, and (3) while [he] is fulfilling those
duties or engaged in doing something incidental thereto."
GLOBAL
WARMING CASE IN MISSISSIPPI
NAM FLAG Weekly Communication
A
Mississippi federal judge has dismissed a case in
which property owners sued power companies for damages to their property
resulting from Hurricane Katrina. The plaintiffs claimed that the companies’
activities contributed to global warming, which made Hurricane Katrina a more
severe storm. The case has a long history—click here to read briefs filed by the NAM
throughout the process.
Next, the project team began
working on recommendations for improvement. This included major revisions to
the Division’s Standard Operating Procedures manuals, a complete revamping of
the review process for compliance reports, and a new streamlined method of
information gathering and case file management.
In August 2011, the team
conducted a successful field test of the new process, which was then expanded
to include all compliance officers and continued through February 2012. At the
end of the field test period, the challenges were evaluated and compared to the
significant benefits acquired with the new process.
During the L6S field
trial period, the following measurable benefits were identified:
1. Considerable
improvement in time lines for case completion: 52% of cases were completed in
20 days or less, and only 21% took over 40 days to complete. This essentially
cut the time to process cases in half.
2. All
of the Standard Operating Procedures manuals and review processes were completely
re-written.
So what is the positive
impact of this new more efficient process for the workers and employers in the
State of Utah? The Division is able to conduct more inspections, as well as
better understand where UOSH can have the most impact on worker safety. We seek
to increase support services to employers and workers, and this new process
will allow staff to spend more time providing compliance assistance to
employers, conducting more safety interventions with workers exposed to
hazardous situations and working more efficiently on preventing serious
injuries and fatalities.
The complete
involvement, commitment and participation of the UOSH staff, and the continued
support and contributions of Steering Team members Chris Bardin, Director of
Safety and Health for The Layton Companies; D. Paul Riley, Global Safety
Manager for the Risk Management Division of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints; Thomas E. Bingham, President of the Utah Manufacturers Association,
and Labor Commission Division Directors and Management has been fundamental to
the success of this project.
What is the future of
L6S in UOSH? The future implementation of an integrated enterprise-wide
management system for all functions in the UOSH Division. And this is just the
beginning.
The Federal Reserve
chairman said job growth will require more consumer and business demand and
that the Reserve's policies will help boost growth … continue
But often overlooked in
the midst of these attacks are the food companies and owners investing in ways
to make food safer and Americans healthier … continue
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