WASHINGTON
Frontline California workers could lose protections if Republican efforts to limit corporate liability is included in a new stimulus package, advocates warn.
Republicans have pushed legislation for months to keep businesses from being sued if customers or employees contract the virus. But advocates are alarmed that language proposed by Senate Republican leaders is being weighed as part of the next economic aid deal that would prevent the nation’s workplace safety overseers the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or similar state-level agencies from enforcing certain COVID-related safety regulations.
The desire by Senate Republican to hold private businesses immune from COVID lawsuits has been among the major sticking points preventing Congress from passing another COVID aid package.
WASHINGTON
Frontline California workers could lose protections if Republican efforts to limit corporate liability is included in a new stimulus package, advocates warn.
Republicans have pushed legislation for months to keep businesses from being sued if customers or employees contract the virus. But advocates are alarmed that language proposed by Senate Republican leaders is being weighed as part of the next economic aid deal that would prevent the nation’s workplace safety overseers the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or similar state-level agencies from enforcing certain COVID-related safety regulations.
Congress has just a few days left to pass another package before certain benefits expire at the end of the year, including expanded unemployment insurance that has been a lifeline for millions of Americans whose employers closed because of the virus. These protections were part of the CARES Act.
California attorney general seeks Amazon coronavirus data
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Amazon has centers like this one in Kent, Wash., throughout California, and the state wants data about how the firm handles the coronavirus in them.Alan Berner / Seattle Times
California is ratcheting up pressure on Amazon to turn over information on how it handles the coronavirus at its sprawling network of facilities in the state.
The move is part of a mounting campaign California employers have faced from Sacramento this year to disclose virus infections at work and protect workers, even as congressional Republicans have sought to protect companies from lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for workplace infections.
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