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Cal/OSHA Board Grudgingly Accepts Dropping ‘Exclusion Pay’ In COVID Rule


November 21, 2022 at 03:35 PM
California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board members are grudgingly accepting that the agency will not restore “exclusion pay” requirements in its long-term COVID-19 worker-safety standard, after staffers told them inserting the benefit would delay the rule by at least seven months -- which would leave no coronavirus standard in place as of Jan. 1.

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