Unions Urge OSHA To Drop Rule Narrowing General Duty Clause Rule

Labor unions and occupational health experts are urging OSHA to withdraw a proposed rule that would narrow the agency’s interpretation of the General Duty Clause to exclude certain activities from enforcement, saying the proposal violates the agency’s statutory mandate and is based on faulty legal reasoning. OSHA should “rescind this proposal because it severely undermines the agency’s ability to uphold its mandate from Congress to ‘assure so far as possible every working man and woman in the Nation safe and...