Source: JD SUPRA, 11/6/20

Last month, a collection of labor interest groups that includes the AFL-CIO, NAACP, and NC Raise Up filed a petition for rulemaking with the North Carolina Department of Labor, seeking issuance of an emergency workplace safety standard intended to protect employees from exposure to the coronavirus. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has declined to issue a nationwide standard, and with the exception of Virginia, no state OSHA plans in the Southeast have issued their own COVID-19 regulations.

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