Items Tagged with 'AB 685'

Ag groups worry a new COVID-19 regulation sets unrealistic mandates for protecting farmworkers in employer-provided housing and transportation.

Foster Farms has conducted more than 6,000 tests and implemented other protective measures in response to coronavirus outbreaks at four poultry processing plants.

A Cal/OSHA board has approved a petition by labor groups for an emergency regulation to develop new COVID-19 requirements for employers.

Newsom responds to farmworker infections * Ross: State can be more diverse * Eligibility rules may challenge big farms * Trump promotes food boxes

Newsom said an announcement will come "very, very shortly” on infection reporting.

A bill in the Legislature would require employers to notify state public health and safety departments as well as employee unions of a COVID-19 infection within 24 hours of an outbreak.