Source: Rebecca Rainey, POLITICO, 111/6/20


One of President-elect Joe Biden’s first moves in office could be issuing mandatory workplace safety rules that employers must follow to protect workers from exposure to the coronavirus. It'd likely be one of his first big fights with American big business, your host reports, and could set up a contentious battle in the lame-duck session of Congress over liability protections. Employers, subject to a flurry of optional guidelines from the Trump administration that have been revised and rewritten throughout the pandemic, are dreading the new, tougher Biden rules.

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