Risk Management
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—week ending July 31, 2020
COVID-19: OSHA Seeks to Dismiss Maid-Rite Meat Processing Plant Employees’ Mandamus Complaint, Court Denies Stay
On July 28, 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) filed a motion to dismiss and supporting brief in response to a mandamus complaint filed on July 22. 2020, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania by Maid-Rite Specialty Foods, LLC employees alleging Maid-Rite failed to comply with the Joint CDC/OSHA COVID-19 guidelines for meat processing plants in the operation of its Dunmore, PA, plant and seeking a court order […]
