Su Backs Workplace Violence Bill Amid Long-Stalled OSHA Rulemaking

Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su used a Jan. 26 event to back Democrats’ latest iteration of a bill that would set a strict deadline for OSHA to enact its long-delayed workplace violence standard for the healthcare sector, despite the agency’s failure to even set a target for a proposal some eight years after beginning the rulemaking process. At a Jan. 26 roundtable discussion in Norwich, CT, held by Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT), one of the bill’s primary sponsors, Su praised...