Despite Potential Climb, Businesses Continue Fight for Injunction Against COVID Rules

Agriculture industry advocates and retail groups are continuing their efforts to overturn COVID-19 workplace rules that the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health approved last year, although a judge has signaled he’s uneasy about undoing the regulations, according to court records and media reports. During a hearing Thursday at San Francisco Superior Court, attorneys for the Western Growers Association, National Retail Federation and a host of other plaintiffs asked Judge Ethan Schulman to negate Cal/OSHA’s emergency regulations because they’re outside o...