A federal appeals court struck down a nurses’ union’s petition to reinstall an emergency protection standard for front-line health workers at risk of contracting COVID-19. The U.S. Court of Appeals ...

On February 3, 2023, California’s Office of Administrative Law approved Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 Non-Emergency Regulation (NER). The NER is now the operative COVID-19 regulation for most California ...

Is COVID-19 still a thing, and does OSHA care about it? Yes and yes. We all know that COVID-19 is still around. On the OSHA front, the agency seems to be focused less exclusively on COVID-19 and plans ...

The U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Jan. 15 terminated its COVID-19 healthcare rulemaking to prioritize completing a broader infectious diseases rule for ...

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Courts lack power to force rulemaking by workplace safety agency Unions claimed lapse in enforcement Court in 2020 nixed unions' push for broader COVID safety rule (Reuters) - The U.S. workplace ...

California OSHA announced that most of its workplace health standards have ended, but reporting and recordkeeping requirements will remain in effect until 2026. The California Division of Occupational ...

The new FAQs help employers apply the agency’s existing injury and illness recording and reporting requirements to the coronavirus. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health ...

SACRAMENTO — California will stop making companies pay employees who can't work because they caught the coronavirus while on the job. For the past two years, California workplace regulators have tried ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today announced an interim enforcement response plan for the coronavirus pandemic. The response plan provides ...

(Reuters) - Miguel Cabezola, a driver for United Parcel Service Inc in Tucson, Arizona, complained on March 27 to U.S. workplace safety regulators, alleging the company was taking a lax approach to ...