OSHA withdraws its large-employer vaccine mandate

OSHA has withdrawn its large-employer vaccine mandate, which was the OSHA ETS that was recently stayed by the Supreme Court. In doing so, OSHA left the ETS as a proposed rule, on which it has invited public comment, in other words, left it as a draft that it is considering making final subject to input from the public. As a proposed rule, the OSHA ETS does not carry the force and effect of law. Also in withdrawing its rule, OSHA noted that states may adopt their own rules and that OSHA’s withdrawal of its now-frozen rule does not require states, such as California, to withdraw their own state ETS rules.