BLANK CHECK: Dem-run state changing pay requirement for workers with COVID-19
FOX Business Madison Alworth joins ‘Varney & Co.’ to discuss how New York City and L.A. County are beginning to recommend indoor masking in public places.getting infected with COVID-19The state's Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted on Thursday to end that requirement in 2023, adopting the COVID-19 Prevention Non-Emergency Regulations, citing new pandemic challenges making the rule harder to enforce.
The coronavirus is so widespread that it is harder to tell where someone got sick and changes in quarantine regulations mean that most workers are not required to stay home once they’ve been exposed to the virus as long as they don’t have symptoms and don’t test positive for the virus.A worker wears a mask while preparing desserts at Universal City Walk, Friday, May 14, 2021, in Universal City, Calif.
Regulators will soon begin working on permanent rules, and several board members promised to make sure the permanent rules include a requirement for sick workers to keep getting paid.A worker wears a mask as he dries a car amid the COVID-19 pandemic at hand car wash shop, in Los Angeles, May 20, 2021.Low-wage workers can file for workers’ compensation benefits if they have to miss time because they have the coronavirus, but approval is not guaranteed.
However, companies are still required to notify employees if they have been exposed to the virus while at work, as well as toCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference on Oct. 6, 2022, in San Francisco, California.Business groups argued Thursday that there don't need to be any coronavirus standards at all as the government warns about a spike in infections and resumed the program sending free COVID-19 tests to U.S. households.
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