Michigan’s push for permanent COVID-19 rules sparks battle with business leaders Updated 1:21 PM; Today 12:33 PM Workplaces are required to do temperature checks of employees, under MIOSHA's COVID-19 emergency rules.Tom Horak | For NJ Advance Media Facebook Share Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has laid a clear path for Michigan to eliminate its COVID-19 health order and associated restrictions: Get 70% of the population 16 or older to have at least one vaccine shot. But simultaneously, the state is working through a process to make permanent its workplace COVID-19 rules, enforced through the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The current temporary MIOSHA workplace rules expire Oct. 14 and cannot be extended again, per state law.