The US OSHA federal agency (Occupational Health and Safety Administration) that is responsible for working conditions in companies, has not issued any specific rules for ‘essential’ workers during the coronavirus pandemic. A New York Times opinion piece criticizing the lack of any mandatory, punishable federal rule, was headed thus, ‘You’re On Your Own,’ Essential Workers Are Being Told. Yet it's the same for employers, with each having to do as it sees fit amid a variety of regulations issued by the different States and cities.
Supermarket staff, Amazon’s warehouse workers, prison personnel, subway drivers, abattoir and industrial butcher employees… have no federal State protection. Several abattoirs and warehouses, where social distancing was not required have been severely impacted. For example, a Cargill food processing plant in Pennsylvania had to close after 162 of its 900 employees were infected. And yet no one in Washington has intervened. Employers are independently drawing up their own regulations and rules.
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