House Republicans Urge OSHA To Seek Employers’ Comments On ETS

Republicans on the House labor panel are urging OSHA to reach out to employers as it crafts a widely expected emergency temporary standard (ETS) for COVID-19, warning that rules based on outdated science could have an “adverse impact” on workplace infection controls. In a Feb. 25 letter to Acting Labor Secretary Al Stewart, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), ranking member on the House Education and Labor Committee, and Rep. Fred Keller (R-PA), top Republican on the committee’s workforce protections panel, question...