Observers on all sides expect the Supreme Court to stay implementation of OSHA’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-testing standard in the coming days, leaving many employers uncertain on how to move forward after its first compliance deadline arrived on Jan. 10, especially as OSHA has yet to act on requests for extensions -- including from the Postal Service.

Observers on all sides expect the Supreme Court to stay implementation of OSHA’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-testing standard in the coming days, leaving many employers uncertain on how to move forward after its first compliance deadline arrived on Jan. 10, especially as OSHA has yet to act on requests for extensions -- including from the Postal Service.

OSHA has quietly resumed development of an emergency response standard intended to bolster protections for first responders after pausing the process late in the Obama administration, but stakeholders are warning that the eventual rule may exclude much of the sector as it is dominated by public-sector and volunteer workers outside OSHA’s purview.

OSHA has quietly resumed development of an emergency response standard intended to bolster protections for first responders after pausing the process late in the Obama administration, but stakeholders are warning that the eventual rule may exclude much of the sector as it is dominated by public-sector and volunteer workers outside OSHA’s purview.

Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared to doubt OSHA’s authority to issue its COVID-19 vaccine-or-testing emergency temporary standard (ETS), with several questioning whether Congress could have foreseen situations like the current pandemic when it wrote the OSH Act, and others asking if the standard is truly necessary to fight the coronavirus.

Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared to doubt OSHA’s authority to issue its COVID-19 vaccine-or-testing emergency temporary standard (ETS), with several questioning whether Congress could have foreseen situations like the current pandemic when it wrote the OSH Act, and others asking if the standard is truly necessary to fight the coronavirus.

Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared to doubt OSHA’s authority to issue its COVID-19 vaccine-or-testing emergency temporary standard (ETS), with several questioning whether Congress could have foreseen situations like the current pandemic when it wrote the OSH Act, and others asking if the standard is truly necessary to fight the coronavirus.

Public health groups are asking a federal appeals court to resume their lawsuit over OSHA’s 2019 rollback of Obama-era electronic recordkeeping and reporting mandates, after the agency failed to propose restoring the rule by the end of 2021 as it promised in an earlier filing -- though it now says the proposal will arrive by mid-February.

Public health groups are asking a federal appeals court to resume their lawsuit over OSHA’s 2019 rollback of Obama-era electronic recordkeeping and reporting mandates, after the agency failed to propose restoring the rule by the end of 2021 as it promised in an earlier filing -- though it now says the proposal will arrive by mid-February.

Public health groups are asking a federal appeals court to resume their lawsuit over OSHA’s 2019 rollback of Obama-era electronic recordkeeping and reporting mandates, after the agency failed to propose restoring the rule by the end of 2021 as it promised in an earlier filing -- though it now says the proposal will arrive by mid-February.