Employers Charge Revised Cal/OSHA COVID ETS Falls Short Of CDC Update

Employer and industry attorneys are criticizing the California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) draft revised COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) as not appropriately relaxed to conform with new physical distancing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ahead of a key June 3 vote by the agency’s standards board. “The . . . proposed draft is moving in the wrong direction by removing the prior exception to the physical distancing requirement for ‘locations at which employees are fully vaccinated,’” Andrew...