California Pauses Plans for Its Own Covid-19 Shot-or-Test Rule

California regulators have put on hold plans to consider adopting a state version of federal OSHA’s Covid-19 vaccination or test mandate.

The state Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board announced late Monday that because the federal standard has been stayed by a federal court, the board wouldn’t take up the state rule at its meeting set for Thursday. The board hadn’t yet released the text of the possible California standard.

The board cited the order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Nov. 12 that federal OSHA “take no steps to implement or enforce” the emergency ...