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At the end of 2020, California approved the Division of Occupational Safety & Health’s (“Cal OSHA”) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”). Among the many. ....
Photo by Gary Kazanjian and is republished here by permission. In the first days of August, Fresno farmworker Brenda Yamileth, lined up for a COVID-19 test alongside her mother and brother. Feverish and headachy, she held her 10-month-old daughter. Soon, all four tested positive. She quarantined with her baby in one bedroom of her Mendota house while her husband and 2½-year-old son slept in the other. Daughter Michelle cried nonstop, and Yamileth worried for the baby’s health. At the same time, she feared infecting her husband and son, steps away. Her husband developed a cough as she quarantined, but never got a test. ....
California ag groups challenge COVID-19 emergency standards capitalpress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from capitalpress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Tim Hearden California Farm Bureau Federation, Western Growers, Grower-Shipper Association are among the plaintiffs. Dec 31, 2020 A coalition of agricultural and business employers has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court challenging the COVID-19 related emergency temporary standards recently approved by the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board. The complaint alleges, among other things, that the Board lacks statutory authority to impose many of the sweeping measures of the ETS on California employers. For California’s multi-generational farmers, the health and safety of their employees and the consumers they serve is their top priority. “In the weeks and months following Governor Newsom’s emergency declaration in March, California farmers and processors moved quickly to implement dramatic new safety practices aimed at mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace,” said Dave Puglia, Pres ....
Why few farm workers isolate in California’s free Covid-19 hotel rooms Gary Kazanjian Despite the heavy toll of Covid-19 on California’s farm workers, Gavin Newsom’s pandemic housing program made just 81 hotel reservations for ag workers as of December 16. In the first days of August, Fresno farm worker Brenda Yamileth, lined up for a Covid-19 test alongside her mother and brother. Feverish and headachy, she held her 10-month-old daughter. Soon, all four tested positive. Pictured above: María Reyes, who tested positive for Covid-19, quarantines at her home in Mendota on Dec. 12, 2020. Reyes declined a hotel room with Housing for the Harvest out of concern she would have to leave her teenage daughter. ....