Source: Emily Kopp, ROLL CALL, 6/10/21


The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, after months of delay, released standards to protect essential workers from COVID-19 Thursday, but those policies were scaled back significantly to apply only to health care settings. In a major win for corporate lobbyists, OSHA issued separate guidance that offers largely unenforceable recommendations for other high-risk workplaces. The pared-back policies bring a quiet close to a saga that began over a year ago, when employees first raised concerns about catching the highly infectious...

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