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A decision on tough new coronavirus workplace protections awaits Walsh as labor secretary By Jim Puzzanghera Globe Staff,Updated March 11, 2021, 7:50 a.m. Email to a Friend Dr. Salam Beah carried a sign during a protest over improved COVID-19 testing and workplace safety policies outside of UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles in December.PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images As Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh awaits confirmation as US labor secretary, the department he would lead is mulling a major decision with significant implications for workers and businesses reemerging from the pandemic-stricken economy. The clock is ticking on a Monday deadline set by President Biden for the Labor Department to consider whether new nationwide rules are needed to safeguard workers from COVID-19 and, if so, to issue them. Biden is pushing for quick action after the Trump administration declined to enact a so-called emergency temporary standard for coronavirus workplace protect ....
pixabay Legislative Watch: House subcommittee questions meat industry; USDA Fair and Competitive Markets adviser named; Meat Institute takes Prop 12 to Supreme Court. Even as coronavirus rates in meat and poultry plants have dropped significantly and are five times lower than the general public, the meatpacking industry was questioned and criticized by members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services on its response to protecting workers during the coronavirus crisis. Chair Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said “many meatpacking and agricultural companies have blatantly put profits over people” and “few are being held to account.” Committee members and labor witnesses stated that OSHA had failed in their responsibility of protecting workers and called on OSHA to issue enforceable workplace safety requirements for companies during the pandemic. They also called for increased inspections and enforcement and hig ....
email article WASHINGTON House members may disagree on how well the COVID-19 pandemic is being handled, but they do seem to agree on one thing: workers in meatpacking and poultry processing plants should be given higher priority for vaccination than they are right now. It s becoming very clear through the entire COVID crisis that vaccines are the way out, said Rep. Andy Harris, MD (R-Md.), during a hearing on health and safety protections for meat, poultry, and agricultural workers held by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. Given the data we have gotten in the last couple of weeks that it seems that a single shot of Pfizer or Moderna is almost as good as two shots and hopefully the FDA will revise the EUA [emergency use authorization] to allow that we could be freeing up 20 or 30 million doses in the next month, some of which could go to these workers. ....
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