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Legal Uncertainty Lingers On Mandating OSHA Virus Guide At Meat Plants


May 7, 2020 at 04:24 PM
A federal district court judge has dismissed a lawsuit by worker safety advocates aiming to require a meatpacking plant to apply OSHA guidance for reducing exposures to COVID-19, but advocates are already pursuing a formal rulemaking petition seeking to force the agency to issue an emergency standard for such facilities.

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