Archive for August 2020

Federal safety officials aren’t issuing a national coronavirus exposure rule, so state and local governments are taking matters into their own hands by enacting Covid-19 workplace protection mandates, according to Bloomberg Law. They’re using a range of agencies—from state safety inspectors to city health and building departments—to enforce the hodgepodge of executive orders, state laws,…

American schools are faced with an unprecedented catch-22 amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic: Either reopen safely and undertake the risk of a coronavirus outbreak or play it safe and provide unappealing remote classes for their students, according to AOL.com With the lack of clear guidance from the federal level, schools and colleges are implementing varied…

Farms have already reported outbreaks among hundreds of workers in states that include California, Washington, Florida and Michigan, according to National Public Radio. And yet, the federal government has not established any enforceable rules either to protect farmworkers from the coronavirus or to instruct employers what to do when their workers get sick. While migrant worker advocacy groups say this…

Nervous about the possibility of going back to the workplace? The New York Times offers what to take into consideration. Since the coronavirus hit the United States in the spring, about 35 percent of American workers have switched to telecommuting, according to a recent survey by the National Bureau of Economic Research. And with the end of…