A federal appeals court struck down a nurses’ union’s petition to reinstall an emergency protection standard for front-line health workers at risk of contracting COVID-19. The U.S. Court of Appeals ...

On January 15, OSHA announced that it has terminated its COVID-19 healthcare rulemaking. On June 21, 2021, OSHA issued an Emergency Temporary Standard to protect workers from COVID-19 in healthcare ...

The American Hospital Association is calling on the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration not to finalize its emergency temporary COVID-19 standard for healthcare workers.

A coalition of 115 House members is pressing the Biden administration to issue permanent protections for healthcare workers from contracting COVID-19. The House lawmakers wrote to the Occupational ...

The U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Jan. 15 terminated its COVID-19 healthcare rulemaking to prioritize completing a broader infectious diseases rule for ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) this week proposed removing COVID-19 recordkeeping requirements for healthcare employers, including the last remaining provisions of its ...

Two years into this pandemic, there are no binding national workplace safety rules for COVID-19. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate was blocked by the Supreme ...

Oregon’s workplace safety agency said this week it is relaxing standards for COVID-19 safety precautions, adjusting rules to conform with new state health guidance. That means the end to formal mask ...

Mr. Michaels was assistant secretary of labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration from 2009 to 2017. Mr. Barab was deputy assistant secretary of labor for the Occupational Safety and ...