Sneaked into the congressional Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill last weekend – shortly before the Budget Committee approved it – are ten-fold increases in Fed-OSHA penalties for serious, willful, and …
A study conducted by the Mayo Clinic and analytics firm nference compared two vaccines – Moderna and Pfizer – and found Moderna to be more effective against breakthrough infections from all known variants. The study suggests that both messenger RNA vaccines show signs of lessening effectiveness against COVID, including the Delta variant, but further research …
vaccination status. Physical distancing standards are also eliminated in many situations. The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has approved revisions to the COVID emergency temporary standard, by a 5-1 vote. Soon after …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has published the latest version of its COVID emergency standard, on which it will vote later this week. The big change: Fully vaccinated employees will not …
Less than a week after it adopted controversial revisions to the COVID emergency standard, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board voted to pull them back. Now the plan is for the Division …
In another twist in the now surreal Cal/OSHA-COVID regulatory drama, the Standards Board has called a special meeting for June 9th to discuss potential new rules. The Board also released an updated agenda for its regular monthly meeting on June 17th, which include the possible readoption of the COVID-19 standard. Considering that the Board readopted …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board held over a critical vote on revisions to the COVID emergency temporary standard. The move was at the request of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which says it wants to redo the revisions in accord with the Center for Disease Control. DOSH intends to rework the proposal, and the …
The parties in a lawsuit seeking to hold an employer liable for the case of COVID-19, the virus originating in China, that an employee’s wife contracted are due back in federal court next month. The negligence lawsuit was dismissed earlier, but the case is back on an amended complaint the employer, Victory Woodworks, will argue …