Legislation

On February 6, the Coalition for Workplace Safety sent a letter to the US Senate urging Senators to reject the policies contained in Senator Hawley’s (R-MO) legislative framework altering federal labor and employment policy. The framework would impose significant new regulatory schemes on employers and create an entirely new subagency at the Department of Labor, both of…

On October 8, the Coalition for Workplace Safety and 45 employer organizations sent a letter to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee urging them to oppose the newly reintroduced Warehouse Worker Protection Act. The following statement can be attributed to CWS spokesperson Lauren Williams: “As we explained when the Warehouse Worker Protection Act was originally…

On May 17, the Coalition for Workplace Safety and 58 other employer organizations sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives urging them to pass Representative Mary Miller’s Congressional Review Act resolution to nullify the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s worker walkaround final rule. The following can be attributed to CWS spokesperson Lauren Williams,…

On July 26, the Coalition for Workplace Safety sent a letter to the House Education and Labor Committee opposing HR 2193, the Asuncion Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act, and urging the committee to reject the bill. Our letter explained that “heat exposure does not lend itself to a rushed, arbitrarily imposed process.” This…

On November 17, Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) and Rep. Fred Keller (R-PA) introduced SJRes 29 and HJRes 65, Congressional Review Act (CRA) challenges to OSHA’s vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard (ETS). All 50 Republican Senators and over 190 Republican Representatives have cosponsored their respective joint resolutions. The CRA allows Congress to challenge rules issued…