UPDATE: On May 20, 2021, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a bipartisan agreement with the Legislature to fully negotiate the state budget and federal funding from the CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan Act with the State Budget Director. Under the agreement, the MIOSHA’s draft permanent rules would be withdrawn. Additionally, in accordance with the governor’s MI Vacc to Normal plan allowing in-person work with the state reaching the 55 percent vaccination threshold, MIOSHA will remove from its standing emergency rules the requirement that employers create “a policy prohibiting in-person work for employees to the extent that their work activities can be feasibly completed remotely.” MIOSHA will also update the emergency rules to reflect recent guidance from the CDC and MDHHS, which will take effect May 24, 2021.