The state of New York is offering online educational opportunities through the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board to help people who believe they were exposed to COVID-19 at work and are now suffering from ongoing long-haul symptoms. Spotlight News
Virginia GOP pushes to protect employees who decline COVID vaccines
Virginia lawmakers narrowly passed a bill earlier this month that would allow people fired for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine to receive unemployment benefits if no other misconduct took place. The bill was one of several introduced by Republicans this session to protect and defend employees who do not want to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Virginia Business
County cautions public about high lead around Tampa factory
Local environmental regulators issued an air pollution precaution on Friday warning residents near a Tampa lead factory to limit outdoor activity after government testing showed elevated concentrations, including one that was more than five times the limit, of the neurotoxin in the air. County regulators said it’s the first such public notice the county has ever issued for lead. The company that operates the factory calls the high readings unusual and inconsistent with other readings recorded from the monitors last month. Tampa Bay Times
Employees at Georgia discount store say they have no working restroom
Several employees of a Lithonia, Georgia Family Dollar say the store’s toilets stopped working last November and employees have been forced to get in their cars and drive to a nearby convenience store to used the restroom. CBS46 (Atlanta)