On March 22, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) partially reopened the comment period to allow for additional public comment on specific topics covered by its proposed final standard to protect healthcare workers from workplace exposure to COVID-19.
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Massachusetts Defines Essential Services, Shutters the Rest through April 7, 2020
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Effective at noon on March 24, 2020, Massachusetts will become the latest state to close non-essential businesses in the effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. As covered here previously, Connecticut and New York issued substantially similar executive orders in days immediately prior. The Massachusetts order identifies “essential” businesses, orders the closing of non-essential businesses…