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OSHA Proposes Changes to Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements

Littler on 7/10/2025

On July 1, 2025, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued several proposed rules, including two that impact employers’ recordkeeping and reporting obligations....more

Biden’s OSHA Abandons COVID-19 Regulation in Favor of Broader Infectious Disease Standard: What Healthcare Employers Need to Know

Fisher Phillips on 1/23/2025

In the waning days of the Biden administration, federal workplace safety officials finally scrapped plans to finalize an outdated COVID-19 regulation – but started the ball rolling on a broader infectious disease standard...more

No Vaccine, No Employment? Know Your State Law

Dickinson Wright on 3/12/2024

The new Texas ban on vaccine mandates may be just the start. COVID-19 vaccination mandates have been the subject of litigation and the target of state legislation since the vaccines became readily available. While several...more

2023 Health Care Employment Law Year in Review

K&L Gates LLP on 2/29/2024

Employment matters in the health care industry once again prompted significant attention from federal and state governments in 2023. While much of our 2022 Year in Review discussed how states were beginning to address...more

Workplace Law Forecast 2024 - Your workplace law recap for 2023 and predictions for 2024 to help you prepare for the coming year.

Fisher Phillips on 12/4/2023

When I reflect on the relationship that our firm has with our clients, I’m most proud of the fact that you can always count on us. That often means defending complex litigation, steering you through regulatory threats,...more

CMS Withdraws COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Littler on 6/7/2023

In conjunction with the Biden administration’s declaration that the COVID-19 national public health emergency ended effective May 11, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it would “soon end”...more

CMS Withdraws COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate, Enhances Focus on Quality Measures

McDermott+ on 6/2/2023

Following the May 1 White House announcement that the federal government would wind down certain remaining COVID-19 vaccination requirements, on May 31, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final...more

New York Begins Repeal of Healthcare Worker COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Littler on 6/1/2023

The New York State Department of Health (the “Department”) announced on May 30, 2023, that “it has begun the process of repealing the COVID-19 vaccine requirements for workers at regulated health care facilities.”...more

Are We Really Prepared for the Next Pandemic?‎

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 5/3/2023

Schwabe’s recently published report, “State of Healthcare in the Pacific Northwest,” offers reason for optimism. It notes that over 40% of the healthcare workers in Oregon and Washington who responded to the firm’s survey...more

2022 Health Care Employment Law Year in Review

K&L Gates LLP on 2/21/2023

Health care employment law was once again a critical focus for many legislative bodies in 2022. While much of our 2021 Year in Review focused on how states addressed the COVID-19 pandemic itself, most notably with respect to...more

CDC Issues Major Updates for Healthcare Providers and Eases Masking and Other Infection Control Requirements - Important...

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 9/28/2022

For the last few months, we have been fielding calls from clients in the healthcare industry asking about things such as whether they still needed to screen patients upon entry to facilities, whether employees must still wear...more

Federal Courts Reject a Union's Attempt to Force OSHA to Issue New COVID-19 Rules

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 9/6/2022

It may seem like a lifetime ago, but employers may recall that in late 2021, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) withdrew its health care emergency temporary standard (ETS) for COVID-19,...more

Update on COVID-19 Vaccination Accommodations Under Title VII

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP on 8/9/2022

Earlier this year, the United States Supreme Court in Biden v. Missouri, 595 U. S. ____ (2022) provided clarity for hospitals and healthcare facilities when it preliminarily upheld a vaccine mandate for health care workers...more

Code Blue! — Violence in the Workplace

Husch Blackwell LLP on 8/1/2022

Workplace violence has become a hot topic in today’s discourse; however, workplace violence is not just headline fodder for media outlets. The trend is well-documented and especially felt by the healthcare industry which...more

Long-Term Care Facilities Brace for Additional OSHA Inspections Under Extended COVID-19 NEP

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 7/13/2022

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) announced on June 30, 2022, that it was extending “until further notice” its revised COVID-19 National Emphasis Program (“NEP”), which had been set to expire on July...more

Spread of COVID-Whistleblower Legislative Protections Continues Unabated

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 6/29/2022

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was sudden and devastating, and even as the threat levels subside, the fallout endures. To be sure, the healthcare industry has long been on the forefront of battling the threat to public...more

4-Step Plan for Healthcare Employers as OSHA Increases Scrutiny

Fisher Phillips on 6/24/2022

Evidence is mounting that federal workplace safety officials are placing healthcare organizations under increasing scrutiny – and that means you need to develop a proactive plan to put yourself in the best position to...more

Politico’s Bombshell Article on the CDC and COVID Requirements: Five Takeaways For Health Care Leaders

Husch Blackwell LLP on 6/9/2022

On May 30, 2022, Politico published an article with the headline: America’s Hospital Regulator Wasn’t Designed for a Pandemic.” The crux of the article: “[T]he Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is ill-equipped to...more

COVID-19 “Endemic” is Not Over: OSHA is Opening New COVID-19 Programmed Inspections

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/18/2022

Seyfarth Synopsis: Federal OSHA is rolling out an aggressive COVID-19 enforcement program to inspect “high hazard” employers, as well as re-inspect those healthcare employers who have received COVID-19 complaints in the past....more

CMS Clarifies Vaccine Mandate Survey Guidance

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 4/13/2022

With all states now past the Phase 2 deadline established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) with respect to the vaccine mandate for staff of Medicare and Medicaid certified health facilities, the...more

The Top 18 Workplace Law Stories from March 2022

Fisher Phillips on 4/7/2022

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Top 10 Takeaways as OSHA Sets Sights on Permanent COVID-19 Standard for Healthcare Settings

Fisher Phillips on 3/25/2022

Federal workplace safety authorities just announced that they are accepting additional comments regarding a final permanent standard that will address COVID-19 exposure in healthcare settings. According to the March 22...more

OSHA Reaffirms Arrival of Permanent Healthcare Industry COVID-19 Standard

McDermott Will & Schulte on 3/24/2022

On March 22, 2022, the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a limited reopening of the rulemaking record for the COVID-19 emergency temporary standard for the healthcare industry, originally...more

OSHA Seeks Comments on Proposed Final Rule Protecting Healthcare Works from Occupational Exposure to COVID-19

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC on 3/24/2022

On March 22, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) partially reopened the comment period to allow for additional public comment on specific topics covered by its proposed...more

OSHA Taking Comments on Proposed Permanent Healthcare COVID-19 Standard

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis on 3/23/2022

OSHA has partially reopened the rulemaking record and scheduled an informal public hearing to seek comments on several topics relating to the development of a final standard to protect healthcare and healthcare support...more

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