California sued over new coronavirus workplace rules

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

A group of small California businesses and national business groups sued California state agencies Wednesday, seeking to rollback broad workplace protections against the coronavirus implemented last month.

The National Retail Federation and the National Federation of Independent Businesses say rules adopted by the California Department of Industrial Relations to prevent virus infections in the workplace violate the state’s Administrative Procedures Act and weigh too heavily on businesses that have been pushed to the breaking point by the pandemic.

Three California small businesses are also plaintiffs in the suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court. Business groups lobbied strongly against the rule change approved unanimously last month by the by the Standards Board of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHA, which is part of the broader business-regulation department.

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The new rules task most employers in the state with assessing and fixing workplace hazards that would spread the coronavirus. They also must train employees on preventing its spread.

Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-sued-over-new-coronavirus-workplace-15809875.php

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The legal complaint: https://assets.nfib.com/nfibcom/NRF-Complaint-for-Declarative-and-Injunctive-Relief-re-Cal-OSHA-Emergency-Regulations_Redacted.pdf

[Irish_Dem]

1. If businesses kill/sicken most of their workers/customers, who will buy their goods and services?

Who will be their worker bees?

Don't they have to keep some of us alive and in good health to turn a profit?

[Hugin]

2. They don't think that far ahead.

Short sighted.

In their minds it's not a crisis until they say it's a crisis. Creating of course, the worst of all outcomes as we're currently experiencing here in the US.

[tanyev]

6. Oh, they want to stay open until that becomes a problem,

and then they will blame the government for not doing enough.

[Irish_Dem]

8. If most Americans lost their sense of smell and taste from Covid, how would that

impact any business which sells food and meals.

[DBoon]

9. They don't care

In their minds, having a business makes them the most important person in the world.

Other people dying is not their concern. Their money is more important than your life.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Right, we peons must die on the altar of Wall Street.

Money is more important to them than people or the planet.

Putin is thought to be the richest man on earth, worth about
$200 Billion. Yet he continues relentlessly to pursue more wealth and
more power. Power being a vehicle to obtain more money.

Our own US senators went out and bought stock in body bags when
they learned of Covid, probably why they encouraged people not to take
safety precautions.

It is like an addiction, no amount of money will satisfy them.
They want it all. Then what?

[DBoon]

11. and for the greed of every petty business owner who thinks they are god's gift to humanity

[JI7]

15. But it's not all wealthy and wall street types. Most are small business owners

who when they do well live middle class lives .

Many of them are right wing fools also .

[DanieRains]

3. A Lot Of Businesses Are Suffering While The Billionaires Are Getting Richer

It is amazing how the media, or politicians rarely mentions this.

Kinda sucks going bankrupt, while watching Amazon's stockholders cashing in, I would imagine.

[JI7]

7. A lot of small business people are ignorant Republicans. I have a small business and

deal with these fools. Instead of asking for govt help to get through these difficult times they want to recall Newsom .

And as the poster above said if their business becomes affected becsuse of employees being infected or people just not going out they will blame the government for not doing enough to stop it

[SunSeeker]

12. THIS

[not fooled]

4. Instead of suing California

they should be pressuring Congress and the president to provide more relief to small businesses and workers. But, no, that would be "big gubmint" and we can't have that (unless you are an insider who can loot and pillage said gubmint).

[ananda]

5. Their motto should be So Much Killing!

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[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

13. These businesses

and the thousands like them across the country highlight the lack of leadership from Washington D.C. I know I'm beating the proverbial dead horse but a nationwide plan to assist the citizens and smaller businesses affected most heavily by Covid restrictions, using tax credits, stimulus payments and mortgage delay/rescheduling would have gone a long way to avoid the shit show we are now experiencing………...

[Maxheader]

14. Wingers will always come crawling out from theys holes..

to fight liberal laws...