Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
February 8, 2024
Via: JD SupraTexas Governor Greg Abbott’s latest push against vaccine mandates takes form in a new law now in force in the Lone Star State. Senate Bill 7 prohibits private employers from adopting or enforcing certain COVID-19 vaccine mandates. SB 7 directly […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
October 16, 2023
Via: National Law ReviewIn September 2023, federal trial courts in Wisconsin and Kentucky issued decisions dismissing plaintiffs’ claims related to employers’ COVID-19 vaccination and testing requirements. The decisions (1) interpreted “undue hardship” following the Supreme Court of the United States’ Groff v. DeJoy […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
August 28, 2023
Via: JD SupraOn August 8, 2023, the Connecticut Supreme Court issued opinions in Mills v. Hartford HealthCare Corp.and Manginelli v. Regency House of Wallingford, Inc. that addressed the scope of immunity for health care workers and facilities under Governor Ned Lamont’s Executive […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
June 30, 2023
Via: JD SupraThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued new guidance, Notice 2023-37, which states that for plan years ending after December 31, 2024, HSA-compatible high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) will no longer be permitted to cover COVID-19 testing and treatment before the […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
June 8, 2023
Via: JD SupraOn May 16, 2023, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo (the “GC”) issued revisions to her original July 6, 2020 memorandum of suggested manual election protocols for use during the COVID-19 pandemic, found here. The Board’s policies have […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
May 16, 2023
Via: LexBlogIt has been a while since I blogged on the EEOC running Covid-19 guidance. The EEOC just came out with some more updates (it very well could be the last one for a while considering Covid-19 is now endemic), so […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
May 9, 2023
Via: JD SupraAs we have reported previously, on April 10, 2023 President Biden signed legislation ending the COVID-19 National Emergency. However, the rollback of COVID-19 requirements was already underway in many state and municipal legislatures, with some requirements having previously been repealed […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
April 25, 2023
Via: JD SupraThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) has announced that several notifications of enforcement discretion issued during the COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”) will expire concurrently with the expiration of the PHE on May […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
February 20, 2023
Via: JD SupraThe California Office of Administrative Law has approved the California Division of Occupational Health and Safety’s (Cal/OSHA) COVID-19 Prevention Non-Emergency Regulations (Non-Emergency Regulations). As a result, on February 3, 2023, Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) expired, and the […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
January 17, 2023
Via: JD SupraWith the onset of the COVID-19 XBB.1.5 variant, more employees are in need of time off from work this winter to recover from unfortunate illness. Below is a quick update for employers on the current state of COVID-19 paid leave […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
January 12, 2023
Via: JD SupraOn December 15, 2022, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board adopted the COVID-19 Prevention Non-Emergency Regulation, which would replace the current emergency temporary standards (ETS) that were set to expire on December 31, 2022. The new COVID-19 prevention […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
December 19, 2022
Via: JD SupraNew COVID-19 prevention regulations for California workplaces will become effective no later than January 14, 2023. The new COVID-19 Non-Emergency Prevention Standards contain significant changes as compared to the current Emergency Temporary Standards, some of which will ease the burden […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
November 22, 2022
Via: JD SupraIn addition to AB 152 extending COVID-19 leave through December 31, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom has also signed into law two other COVID-related bills—AB 1751 and AB2693—affecting employers’ policies regarding employees who contract COVID-19. AB 1751 has extended current law […]
Business Law & Regulations, Employment & Labor
November 11, 2022
Via: LexBlogIn September 2022, the Ontario Court of Appeal in Pavlov v. The New Zealand and Australian Lamb Company Limited (“Pavlov“) confirmed that an employer may be liable for a longer notice period, even for a short-term employee, based on prevailing […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
October 21, 2022
Via: EntrepreneurMany people lost a loved one in the past two years due to Covid-19. Employees, communities, companies, organizations and institutions faced severe losses in the workforce and will never be the same as we were before 2020. Despite this, many […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
September 22, 2022
Via: SHRMOn Sept. 14, the New York State Department of Health updated its COVID-19 quarantine and isolation webpage to remove earlier written COVID-19 guidance and tables dated May 31. The webpage now states that New York is following the Aug. 24 […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
September 7, 2022
Via: SHRMA collection of nurses unions asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to order the U.S. Department of Labor to make permanent the agency’s emergency temporary standard for health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Business Law & Regulations, Employment & Labor
August 16, 2022
Via: SHRMCOVID-19 was not a natural disaster under the WARN Act and thus the natural disaster exemption from the law’s notice requirements did not apply to an employer that said a layoff was due to a downturn caused by unexpected adverse […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
August 10, 2022
Via: SHRMOn Sept. 15, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board will continue the long and arduous journey to establish COVID-19 safety measures in the workplace. Since the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s (Cal/OSHA) initial emergency temporary standards […]
Business Law & Regulations, Workplace Safety & Health
August 4, 2022
Via: JD SupraWith COVID-19 cases again on the rise thanks to the BA.5 subvariant, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has issued new guidance that, for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, places some restrictions on an employer’s unlimited […]