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As many California companies work diligently to comply with the recently issued COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS), the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) continues to provide additional COVID-19 compliance information for California employers on the state website.
On January 26, 2021, Cal/OSHA further updated the previously posted frequently asked questions (FAQs) with additional testing information and guidance. Two additional FAQs were added to the January 8, 2021, FAQs with very specific guidance on COVID-19 testing resources, which are reproduced below.
Q: Where can I find COVID-19 testing for my employees?”
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A national worker safety organization called out the federal government yesterday for not protecting workers from the spread of COVID-19 on the job, and demanded OSHA implement an emergency temporary standard to combat the problem.
“The sad truth is that during the COVID-19 pandemic, OSHA and our federal government has failed us,” said Jessica Martinez, co-executive director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, on a Zoom call with reporters where she unveiled an eight-part agenda to keep workers safe. “It has failed to reduce risk, failed to protect workers and failed to stop the spread of a deadly disease.”
Thursday, February 4, 2021
As many California companies work diligently to comply with the recently issued COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS), the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) continues to provide additional COVID-19 compliance information for California employers on the state website.
On January 26, 2021, Cal/OSHA further updated the previously posted frequently asked questions (FAQs) with additional testing information and guidance. Two additional FAQs were added to the January 8, 2021, FAQs with very specific guidance on COVID-19 testing resources, which are reproduced below.
Q: Where can I find COVID-19 testing for my employees?”
A: Some of the simplest ways to get testing include the following:
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 first filed seeking to prevent the agency from enforcing the ETS. Shortly thereafter, the Western Growers Association filed a related case in Los Angeles Superior Court. However, in an effort to avoid “duplicative and inconsistent rulings,” the Western Growers Association lawsuit was transferred to San Francisco and the cases are being heard together.
Fairfield-Suisun board reviews plans to return to in-school learning
Fairfield-Suisun School District Superintendent Kris Corey
FAIRFIELD Shifts this week in how that state ranks counties for novel coronavirus infection have once again opened the doors for a return to in-person classroom instruction and may soon allow some high school sports to resume.
The Fairfield-Suisun School District governing board continues to wrestle with the issue of educating students in the time of Covid-19, evident Thursday when the matter was once again a topic of discussion.
At issue is whether to continue with distance learning or return to in-person instruction. The topic has been covered over the past few months at each meeting, but continued changes to the state’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic has caused delays in returning to normal learning structures for students.