As you have heard, OSHA released its Covid Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) last Friday. On Saturday, a “Stay” was issued by the 5th District Court in New Orleans. Briefs have been delivered by the government and the petitioners and a decision may be made on the stay this week. Multiple other suits have been filed [...]
OSHA issued their Covid Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for general industry on Friday, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has already granted an emergency stay. This case will be put on a fast track, and there may be other cases challenging the rule. Even though the rule is "on pause" for not, it is [...]
Texas Cotton Ginners' Trust has issued a new safety alert, and has asked us to pass it along to you all. Please review the information below. In addition, if you would like to have the Pdf version of these alerts, please click here. OFF-SEASON WORK : OUTSIDE THE NORMAL Repair and re-build and [...]
We are expecting a good crowd in Austin for the Summer meeting, taking place in just a few days! If you are unable to travel to Austin in person, you can still attend the general sessions on Monday and Tuesday from your office via Zoom. We look forward to seeing you, whether in person on [...]
For those of you that had to submit an Emissions Inventory Report earlier this year, TCEQ recently started to send out the 2020 Air Emissions Inventory Verification emails. This email has a link in it that allows you to open up your official Emissions Inventory report and verify all of the information is correct. If [...]
TCGA has begun our District Meeting process. We will have our District Meetings in person this year on the usual pre-Covid schedule. In addition, to accommodate anyone who might not be able to make their normal meeting, we will make a few of the District Meetings available by Zoom as well. The El Campo meeting [...]
It is that time of year again to complete the TCGA Gin Cost Survey. YOUR RESPONSES ARE NEEDED ASAP! We plan to have this information published in time for the first district meeting in late May and we want to include as many gins as possible. This will make the information more representative of the [...]
The Wage and Hour Division has scheduled a group of webinars targeted to Covid-19 and essential workers. Gin workers continued to work throughout the pandemic and the Wage and Hour wants to make sure you as employers as well as employees have all the information on Rights of workers and responsibilities of employers. The Entire [...]
USDA has just published an updated paper with the specifications and pricing for gins that would like to install their own camera system for detecting plastic contamination in the module feeder. This paper is available on the NCGA web site, and on the TCGA Cotton Contamination Resource Page. Click here to view the updated paper, [...]
Two of our gin members have received notices from the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) of an employee that has filed for unemployment benefits. In both cases, the employee was still working for the company and did not actually file the claim. This week, we received a notice from the TWC that there are a lot [...]
