Most businesses with 10 or more employees must keep records of serious work-related injuries and illnesses. This OSHA rule is intended to help businesses identify and address occupational hazards. Under new OSHA rules, however, many businesses will also have to submit their records to OSHA itself, which apparently plans to make them public, at least in some form. Businesses with 20 or more workers must begin submitting OSHA Form 300A starting July 1, 2017. In addition,

For a business, a bad online review can help determine whether new clients flock in the door. But if someone writes such a review on Yelp or any other website, you might be out of luck. In a recent case in California, a federal appeals court decided that an angry business owner who got a one-star rating from a customer couldn’t sue Yelp.

It’s even easier for employees and former employees to sue businesses for retaliation under the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s new enforcement guidance. For the first time since 1998, the agency has updated its guidance on the claim, which is already “asserted in nearly 45 percent of all charges … and is the most frequently alleged basis of discrimination,” it said. Needless to say, preventing a claim is much better than defending one, and retaliation often occurs

Any business would jump at the chance to dictate the order of organic Internet search results that include its name. But that’s not so easy. Still, a judge in Florida recently told a well-known, international company that it must find a way to do exactly that. And in the vast world of the web, it’s a cautionary tale for businesses of all sizes. The case involves a Gainesville, Fla., company, Uber Promotions, which has a regional