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In our annual California Legislative Update, we briefly explained that SB 606 expanded the enforcement authority of the California Division of…

If President Joe Biden’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) vaccine or testing mandate for employers goes forward, nearly half the...

If President Joe Biden’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard ETS vaccine or testing mandate for employers goes forward, nearly half the states have the option of going their own way.

Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law Senate Bill 606, set to take effect on January 1, 2022. With proponents of the bill citing the need to hold large employers accountable...

UPDATE: Cal/OSHA Withdraws June 3, 2021 revised ETS. In a special meeting held on the evening of June 9, 2021, the Cal/OSHA Board met to consider the latest guidance from the Centers...

Singh got a text message just before 1 p.m. one day in early December, alerting him that his mother’s COVID-19 test results were available. Singh’s mother

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Since August 2020, Cal/OSHA has issued COVID-19 citations with proposed penalties totaling almost $3,500,000. TAKEAWAYS Cal/OSHA has not shied away from issuing citations related to COVID-19. As the pandemic subsides, Cal/OSHA will likely return to business as normal in terms of typical inspection targets. As we come up on the one-year anniversary of the pandemic, we look back on the Division of Safety and Health’s (Cal/OSHA’s) en...

On January 25, the State of California lifted its previously enacted emergency stay-at-home order for all 58 counties. The stay-at-home orders were put in place at the beginning of...

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Following the implementation of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s (Cal/OSHA) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) on November 30, 2020, several employers and trade associations filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court for declaratory and injunctive relief against Cal/OSHA. The lawsuit,  National Retail Federation, et al. v. California Department of Industrial Relations, et al. (Case No. CGC20588367), was the fi...

The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board adopted its Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) on COVID-19 prevention in the workplace on November 19, 2020, which we...