Workplace Safety

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... Read more »

Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after reports that President Biden will nominate Doug Parker, current chief of workplace safety in California, to run the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): “During his tenure in California, Doug Parker was a key architect of the controversial and discredited COVID-1... Read more »

COVID vaccines are becoming widely available and President Biden has promised all American adults will be eligible for a vaccine by May, so why is the Biden administration continuing to push a sweeping and rigid COVID-19 regulation in EVERY workplace in America? As Committee Republicans have warned, this politically-motivated Democrat scheme would tie the hands of employers, forcing them to follow... Read more »