The IRS recently issued guidance [1] explaining that OSHA communications regarding COVID-19 precautions alone do not allow employers to qualify for the Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”).[2] Other than ...

On January 15, OSHA announced that it has terminated its COVID-19 healthcare rulemaking. On June 21, 2021, OSHA issued an Emergency Temporary Standard to protect workers from COVID-19 in healthcare ...

On Sept. 26, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Keller, R-Pa., wrote Occupational Safety and ...

Is COVID-19 still a thing, and does OSHA care about it? Yes and yes. We all know that COVID-19 is still around. On the OSHA front, the agency seems to be focused less exclusively on COVID-19 and plans ...

On November 12, 2021, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed its stay pending judicial review of the OSHA COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard in a lawsuit by several ...

OSHA has officially ended its efforts to finalize a COVID-19 safety rule for healthcare workers. Launched as an Emergency Temporary Standard in June 2021, the proposal aimed to protect healthcare ...

Washington — OSHA has terminated its rulemaking on COVID-19 exposure in health care settings to “focus its resources on the completion of an infectious diseases rulemaking.” According to a final rule ...

Washington — OSHA is no longer enforcing its COVID-19 recordkeeping and reporting requirements, the agency announced in a Feb. 5 memo. The agency says it’s still enforcing other recordkeeping and ...