Opinion: New Cal/OSHA Mask Rules Impose Impossible Burdens on Struggling California Employers(Who is coming back the office?)

Californians are eagerly awaiting June 15 as the grand reopening date for our state, as determined by the Governor. The lifting of restrictions and confusing color-coded tiers signals that the sacrifices made professionally, personally, emotionally, have paid off and we are entering an official recovery from the ravages of COVID.

However, before anyone begins their celebrations, Cal/OSHA has told employers the recovery has begun for everyone but them. We may be going “beyond the blueprint,” but the body of individuals appointed by the Governor, who are not legislators, voted Thursday that employers will be left holding the bag on the safety of Californians.

Through a complicated Emergency Temporary Standard update adopted after a full day of public testimony Thursday, employers are directed (in no less than 26 pages) that yes, employees who are vaccinated can shed their masks and enter their workplace as normal. But only if everyone in the workplace is also vaccinated.

Not only is this new guidance still frustratingly confusing, but it still defies the June 15 date which all but ensures that there will be tension as folks understandably believe they are getting mixed messages. The standard now is in effect until at least July 31 — a full month and a half after the June 15 date set by the Governor, for reasons that we are left to simply wonder about.

Even worse, it threatens the public trust behind vaccinations and continues to place impossible burdens on the exhausted employers and workforce who were just beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Not *believe they are*, as if they really aren't and are just imagining it.

They ARE getting mixed signals.

The powers that be just can't give up their grasp on power, can they?

No single person or small group of people, should have that much unbridled power over the lives of millions of others for any reason.

This will have the effect of slowing people from coming back to the office in the San Francisco Bay Area.

“I don’t have to wear a mask when working from home and my productivity is the same or has improved since before CCP-19.

Why would I come back the office”

It also creates a tiered worker class.

They demand a standard for masks, which they had not done previously, saying only that a face covering was required. Now they insist everyone uses a N95 mask.

N95’s are incredibly expensive at around $3 per mask and that is if you can even get them.

Further, the employer will be responsible for supplying them, which increases their cost of business.

The employer is required to keep meticulous records on enforcement of this “rule” and all names involved.

Plus a bunch of other horse crap.

Most concerning is the tierd worker class that is created out of this.

Many of us for personal reasons will not take the shot(it is not a vaccine).

People who are vaccinated will come to resent those of who are not, as they do not want to wear the masks and neither do we but, everyone will be compelled to do so.

Maskerbator:
“Come’on! Get the shot so we can all go back to our regular lives”

Mask Denier:
“Well, no. We can go back to our lives without the givernment dictating those terms, which is looking more and more like the “Political Science” they used as a basis for their dictates is revealing itself to be a fraud and full of contradictions”

Not wearing a mask

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