State Told To Stop Workplace Virus Fines Republican State Representative Sarah Lightner of Springport in Jackson County is openly challenging the state’s enforcement of workplace COVID-19 rules. She is telling the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) it needs to spend some time reviewing, if not outright returning fines, assessed against state businesses. And now based on the latest round of enforcement actions, fines against a state-owned and operated prison. Representative Lightner is chair of a House appropriations subcommittee. During a recent State House committee hearing with MIOSHA Director Bart Pickelman, she took the department to task for imposing citations and fines which essentially are all based on Executive Orders from the Governor. Those Executive Orders were long ago determined to be unconstitutional by the Michigan State Supreme Court. Now what is happening is the same rules are being imposed by state departments as a workaround to the Governors EO’s.