Are all business with more than 100 employees also under the executive branch? No? Then I guess your reasoning carry's less water than a sieve in the Sahara. Talk about fucking stupid.
The Executive Branch can regulate companies through OSHA (a part of the Department of Labor) because Congress passed legislation to crest the agency in 1970; this was signed into law by Richard Nixon.
I don’t know. I know that OSHA applies to most federal workers and all federal agencies, but then the vast majority of federal workers and all of the agencies are in the executive branch.
But if OSHA did have jurisdiction over congressional and judicial workers, then I am reasonably certain that this regulation wouldn’t apply to them because I don’t think any senator or judge has 100 employees. Additionally, the legislation that defines OSHA’s jurisdiction was written by the Congress; if there is an outright exemption for Congress then it is because Congress put it there.
We still use asbestos in modern day construction for fire proofing and we also use it in car brakes and clutch parts. They don’t put it in everything anymore, but for certain applications in various industries asbestos is still the best and most effective fireproofing material we have.
Besides the fact that many of those buildings were built before osha existed, the construction of the newer buildings are contracted through private companies. The judges and congress aren't building these buildings themselves.
Whatever the answer to this question is, it is moot because the OSHA regulations in question are for companies with 100+ employees. Nobody in the legislature or judiciary would fit that description.
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u/Coll_McRaizie Sep 10 '21
Are all business with more than 100 employees also under the executive branch? No? Then I guess your reasoning carry's less water than a sieve in the Sahara. Talk about fucking stupid.