OSHA Plans Vaccine Exemption Guidance If Courts Lift Implementation Hold

A Department of Labor (DOL) attorney says OSHA intends to release new guidance on individual exemptions from vaccine requirements under the agency’s COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS), though the agency is emphasizing that all work on implementation of the rule is paused due to an appellate court’s order. “I think OSHA will probably issue additional guidance particularly as the enforcement directive comes out,” Ashley Briefel, a senior attorney at the Department of Labor (DOL) office of the solicitor, said during...