Recent spikes in coronavirus infections indicate that we have been given a long way to go before a major economic recovery. As mayors, we know that the difficult conditions facing our communities are getting worse with either and the loss of their paycheck, and food lines will continue to appear when the UI bill is almost logical in late July. A federal major for suffering families, small businesses and local communities, as the only one envisaged through the Omnibus Emergency Solutions for Health and Economic Recovery Act (HEROES), passed through the House of Representatives in May, would give our country a desperately needed economic respirator plan. until medical studies can reveal an effective vaccine.
However, this fairly critical investment package, or a large apple alterlocal that can also arise through negotiation, is caught through a deadlock in Congress about the difficulty of defending employees. Senate Republicans are not easy defenses for companies that oppose employee infection lawsuits, while Democrats insist on stricter defense rules for employees.
They’re right. We have seen tragic consequences of too big apples when the most vulgar staff has suffered the consequences of corporate abandonment, such as giant outbreaks in meat processing plants that reveled in thousands of other sick Americans in recent months. The damage caused by the recklessness of these employers is spreading as a contagion, endangering the fitness of entire communities, jeopardizing jobs and undermining our fragile chain of food sources.
However, it may also be true that employers cannot bear the threat of lawsuits from a great Apple or Jstomer employee who gets sick, especially the best friend because the maximum average transfer position of the virus is never larger than a friend. work, but at home and in social settings. In addition, the low prestige of COVID-1nine handover epidemiologists continues to grow. On the other side of the day, we deserve to expect the criteria for workplace defence to move as well. The serious condition of large apple companies, especially small classic restaurants friends, retail stores, non-public care centers and other small employers, makes them unable to withstand threats they cannot mitigate. Putting the threat of unsustainable responsibility on employers will close the doors and exacerbate the economic depression that affects our nation.
In short, we prefer Congress to succeed in a compromise that recognizes the validity of any of the perspectives. As Republican and Democratic mayors, we have a percent of the conviction that this moment calls on Congress, and anyone else popular, to move beyond the party and face the great challenge of our generation. As mayors, we are very familiar with the will of a pragmatic course; citizens expect mayors to make a difference. We cannot afford to point or take political positions if we do not approve the moderate or if we do not get essential emergency services. In a crisis, the price is huge. We urge Congress to understand the pragmatic spirit of governance emanating from local communities that circulate through the rustic and by discanopia, which is not uncommon.
Fortunately, we are able to do both: protect the fitness of our staff and our businesses. We can do this by building a “safe harbor” of liability for employers who wish to comply with their obligation to take all moderate precautions to avoid the transfer of coronavirus in the workplace.
Congress may begin by requiring the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to establish clear, science-based criteria for safe workplaces, and require corporations to meet them. Standards deserve to require a single block to intensify its activities, such as an excess, by providing loose non-public protective equipment to staff, designing workspaces to enclose safe social distance, implementing quick responses to infection reports, and engaging its staff in designing explicit defense solutions on the site. . Congress deserves companies as partners by directly compensating for the price of this operation, especially a friend of the troubled small businesses that would get very little from the wonderfulness of the tax deduction of those costs.
Once the criteria are established, Congress may impose protections opposed to the liability of compliant corporations opposed to unsatisfactory demands through inflamed staff or clients. “Shelter” would reduce insurance costs for employers, allowing them to rent more and supply our suffering families with a desperately preferred paycheck. Here, a smart policy comes with a smart policy: a safe harbor provision can also remove the main obstacle for Senate Republicans to an aid program that our long-delei families and communities have a critical preference.
We oppose the fitness of our staff and our businesses. We prefer both. Let’s end the stalemate in Washington and get America back to work safely.
Sam Liccardo, the Democratic mayor of San Jose, California, the tenth-largest city in the United States, presides over the coalition of mayors of California’s major cities. Bryan Barnett, the Republican mayor of Rochester Hills, Michigan, recently ended his term as president of the Conference of Mayors.
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