RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s elected labor commissioner has declined to adopt rules sought by worker and civil rights groups that would have set safety and masking directives in workplaces for future infectious disease outbreaks like with COVID-19.
Commissioner Josh Dobson, a Republican, announced Wednesday that his refusal came “after carefully reviewing the rulemaking petitions, the record, public comments, listening to both sides and considering the North Carolina Department of Labor’s statutory authority.”
His department held a public hearing in January over the proposed rules offered in December by groups such as the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry, North Carolina State AFL-CIO and state NAACP. Most of the people who spoke at the hearing opposed the proposed rules.
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