Virginia Workplace Safety Regulators Agree to Let Businesses Follow CDC Pandemic Guidelines
SOURCE: Virginia Mercury
The state board that oversees workplace pandemic safety rules agreed to a slate of revisions Thursday, approving new language that will allow businesses to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance in lieu of state regulations.
The change was recommended by Gov. Ralph Northam at the urging of the business community and opposed by many worker advocates.
Virginia was the first state in the country to institute workplace safety rules last summer, which give state inspectors the authority to investigate and discipline businesses that fail to take steps to protect their employees from COVID-19. The move came after national labor groups unsuccessfully pushed the Trump administration to adopt a federal standard.
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