On November 5, 2021, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) officially published the much-anticipated Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for employers with 100 or more employees. Under the ETS, covered...more
11/10/2021
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On September 24, 2021, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force issued guidance on President Biden’s Executive Order on Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors. The Task Force guidance provides details...more
On September 9, 2021, President Biden signed two executive orders in support of his COVID-19 Action Plan. The first is an Executive Order requiring the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force to issue guidance mandating certain...more
9/15/2021
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On September 9, 2020 Governor Newsom signed AB 1867 into law, giving California employers just 10 days to implement new COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave statewide. Below we highlight the major provisions of the new law...more
In an unprecedented move, on June 23, 2020 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted in favor of legislation that requires San Francisco employers with 100 or more employees to “offer a right to reemployment” to certain...more
As we reported in our previous blog post, the city of San Francisco recently enacted the Public Health Emergency Leave Ordinance (“Ordinance”) which requires certain employers to provide employees with paid leave for...more
In response to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, on April 7, 2020, San Francisco and San Jose issued emergency orders providing supplemental paid sick leave to certain employees working within their cities....more
Employers’ obligation to provide safe workplaces for employees is hardly new. The current COVID-19 pandemic, however, has forced health and safety at work to be top-of-mind across U.S. industries in ways not previously...more
On March 31, 2020, the six Bay Area counties that previously issued the nation’s first Covid-19 shelter-in-place orders, amended and extended their prior orders to include stricter controls aimed to slow the spread of...more
On the evening of March 19, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newson issued Executive Order N-33-20, which requires all individuals living in the State of California to stay home or at their place of residence except “as needed...more
As a follow-up to Executive Order N-33-20, on March 20, Governor Newsom’s office released a 14-page report which provides additional guidance regarding “essential business operations” in California....more