Amanda Jackson v. Methodist Health Service Corporation, dba UnityPoint Health - Central Illinois

This Court has stated that mitigation measures related to Covid-19 are a matter of public health and not of workplace safety. National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 142 S.Ct. 661, 211 L.Ed.2d 448. (January 13, 2022). Justice Gorsuch has stated that “[D]ecisive executive action is sometimes necessary and appropriate. But if emergency decrees promise to solve some problems, they threaten to generate others.” Arizona v. Mayorkas, No 22-592, 598 U.S. ___ (May 18, 2023). Whether Executive Orders of the Illinois Governor requesting state agencies and public employers to impose mitigation measures allegedly to prevent the spread of Covid-19 can transform a public health issue into an issue of workplace health and safety.