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Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) led a letter, signed by every Republican Committee Member, to Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, urging him to immediately stop work on an unnecessary and ill-advised Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS).

In the letter, Members write: “Given the latest and ever-evolving science and current state of the virus, it is unfathomable that OSHA would continue to pursue this rigid, one-size-fits-all national “emergency” regulation. Now more than ever, an ETS is a completely unnecessary response that would only tie the hands of business owners who have already taken extraordinary and unprecedented efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus in the workplace.” The Members continue: “It would also severely disrupt the U.S. economic recovery by forcing businesses, consumers, and workers to adhere to an unnecessary, ill-timed, and sweeping government regulation.”

To read the full letter, click here.
 

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