States Slow Walk Shot-or-Test Rules While Waiting on Supremes

State-run workplace safety agencies aren’t rushing to enforce OSHA’s vaccine-or-testing mandate for large employers, or even something like it, as they wait to see what the Supreme Court will do with litigation challenging the federal measure.

In more than half of U.S. states, part or all of the enforcement of federal workplace safety falls to state agencies, including several of the states whose attorneys general are suing to block the OSHA rule—adding another layer of uncertainty to the federal Covid-19 standard beyond the impact of the looming court decision.

Once states do adopt a comparable rule, employers will have another ...