OSHA will conduct some workplace inspections to enforce President Biden’s private-sector vaccine mandate, but will rely primarily on worker complaints to check compliance, senior administration officials said
The enforcement of President Biden’s private-sector vaccine mandate will in large measure come down to the employees themselves, as the government agency whose mission is to improve workplace safety works to play a bigger role in defeating the pandemic.
The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, is enforcing the mandate, which requires workers at larger private-sector companies to be vaccinated against Covid-19 or tested weekly.To Read the Full Story
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