Unions Target COVID-19 ETS Scope As Sole Issue In Court Challenge

Labor unions intend to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to order OSHA to expand its healthcare-specific COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) to either all employers or specifically to the meatpacking and food-processing sectors, according to a new court filing. AFL-CIO and the United Food and Commercial Workers International (UFCW), co-petitioners in UFCW, et al., v. OSHA , filed their statement of issues on July 26, laying out the claims they plan to raise...