Attorneys See Barriers To OSHA COVID-19 Enforcement From ETS Ruling

Attorneys say the Supreme Court’s stay of OSHA’s COVID-19 vaccine standard both forces the agency to use the general duty clause as its primary tool to enforce pandemic safety measures, and creates new hurdles for those efforts -- though it could also open the door to a separate rule based on the emergency temporary standard (ETS) for healthcare workers. During a Jan. 20 webinar hosted by the employer law firm Conn Maciel Carey, Jordan Barab -- a former deputy assistant...