The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has again extended the deadline for employers to electronically submit injury and illness data and said it would publish a final rule in 2018.

A new Transportation Department rule that will require employees working in regulated industries to be tested for certain semisynthetic opioids is a positive step for both workplace safety and the battle against the opioid epidemic.

A father and son in Salinas, California, pleaded guilty to four felony counts for their role in a $400,000 insurance fraud scheme that denied workers compensation insurance and medical care for injured workers, the California insurance commissioner’s office announced Monday.