Nation's labor secretary demand for safty job and workers' rights.

Shortly after she became the nation's labor secretary, warned Hilda Solis corporate America, there was "a new sheriff in town."

Less than a year into his term, the pictorial expression of the authority is unmistakable. Their aggressive initiatives to strengthen enforcement and crack down on companies that have sent the security rules violations in the workplace Employers are scrambling to ensure they follow the rules.

The changes are a departure from the policies of former Solis', Elaine Chao. You keep major presidential campaign, Barack Obama, promised funding for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, enforcement and maintenance workers increase in hazardous industries.

Solis made a sensation in October when OSHA proposed the biggest fine in its history on oil giant BP PLC, because of potential safety problems in 2005 after an explosion at the refinery in Texas City.

Anchorage to pay less attention, they just hire 250 new investigators to protect employees against being cheated of wages and overtime. It also began a new program to examine business records to ensure that employees make accurate injury and illness reports. And it proposes new standards for protecting workers from industrial dust explosions - an attempt by the Bush administration long resistance.

Some companies say they prefer a collaboration between government and business - what the Bush administration as "compliance assistance."

"Our members are concerned that the department changed its emphasis from compliance assistance once more from the" Gotcha "or aggressive enforcement first approach," said Karen Harned, executive director of the National Federation of Independent Business small business legal center.

Other entrepreneurs suggest that the rate of fall-related deaths and injuries at work actually downs in the previous government's record, while the agency also helped the staff raises record amount of overtime and arrears for violations of minimum wage. Chao has said that success will help the result of collaboration with the company, they understand the many regulations have been.

Keith Smith, a spokesman for the National Association of Manufacturers, said his members want to "build on the progress further and to recognize what works."

But in November report from the Government Accountability Office suggested that there is widespread unreported questions about workplace safety. Researchers cited evidence that some employers pressure workers not diseases and injuries and urged OSHA report, to be more competitive in the review of business records.

Labor's spokesman Jaime Zapata said the idea to help businesses understand the rules, is still an important part of the strategy for the agency, along with stepped-up enforcement. Solis wants to hire 100 new inspectors, OSHA next year.

"Compliance is not created by the last administration support," said Zapata.

The changes were praised by leaders of organized labor, the millions spent to help Obama elected prepared. Solis, a former California congressman and daughter of immigrants, who were both organized, is a favorite of unions and a longtime advocate of workers' rights.

"We will not rest until the law is followed by every employer and every worker is treated, and adequate compensation," Solis said last month that they represent a new national information campaign to describe that workers know their rights, on labor.

The massive fine against BP certainly caught the attention of the public, but other companies also pay a heavy price for violations of safety rules.

Two months after the new fiscal year, OSHA has already been mentioned six companies involved in "extreme" violations that lead to the highest punishment. There were only four such serious cases throughout last year.

Solis said her agency in the year 90 new rules and regulations will be addressed next year. A change would give workers more information about how their pay is calculated. Another option would be to inform employers if they sought advice from anti-union labor consultants.

Glenn Spencer, executive director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Workforce Freedom Initiative, "said Solis not yet ready to hear some of the concerns that his faction. But he was most concerned about the possibility that the Labor Party officials will try to be too expensive ergonomics rules again . To make these rules would protect the companies that are working to redesign rooms for employees from repetitive strain injuries.

One of the first acts of the Bush administration was to repeal the ergonomics rules adopted in the Clinton administration. Solis Supports the rules at the time and not on the plans to revive those talks.

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