Biden vaccine mandate pulls workplace safety agency to center of political storm

“An emergency temporary standard is an extraordinarily difficult route to go for OSHA,” said Baruch Fellner, an occupational safety lawyer at the firm Gibson Dunn. “OSHA has never succeeded in promulgating an emergency temporary standard. Not only has it never succeeded in promulgating emergency temporary standards, in most instances, when confronted normally by unions asking for or otherwise filing a lawsuit to obtain an ETS, it has declined to pursue that, recognizing the legal hurdles.”