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New Jersey Crafts COVID-19 Mandate Despite Lack Of OSH Act Authority


November 3, 2020 at 02:50 PM
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) is tasking several state agencies with enforcing new COVID-19 workplace-safety mandates, a response to OSHA’s refusal to craft a binding standard for the virus and a model for other states that lack delegated OSH Act worker safety program authority to nonetheless enact binding pandemic rules.

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