Deadlines, Costs Raised in White House OSHA Covid Rule Meetings

Employers and unions meeting with White House staffers want to know who pays for testing and how quickly businesses must comply with OSHA’s impending Covid-19 shot-or-test standard.

The White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs had scheduled 59 meetings about the rule through Thursday. The Biden administration hasn’t said when the standard will be issued.

The general parameters of the anticipated mandate are that it would require all U.S. businesses with 100 or more workers to require them to either be verifiably vaccinated against Covid or submit to testing for the virus at least once per week.

The sessions, ...