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Measles in 2025: Prevention, Prophylaxis, and Workplace Policies

Measles has seen a resurgence in the United States in 2025, with significant outbreaks reported, particularly in Texas and New Mexico. As of June 3, 2025, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s U.S. Measles...more

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NAVEX R&C Benchmark Finding: The Lingering Impact of COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant global disruption, not only for people’s livelihoods but also for corporations who have had to find ways to adapt to the pandemic aftereffects and a changed way of working. Remote and...more

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Exercise Caution With COVID-19 Vaccine Incentives to Avoid Running Afoul of Gambling Laws

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Since the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its updated COVID-19 guidance on May 28, 2021 greenlighting vaccine incentives, many employers seized the opportunity to offer incentives to employees to...more

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Mandatory vaccines for the workplace: worth a shot?

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With over half the adult population having now received their first vaccine, many employers will be wondering how they can use the vaccine rollout to get employees back into workplaces....more

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Strategies in Responding to COVID-19: Expanding Scope of Practice to Increase Patient Access to Healthcare

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues and our health system is pushed to and beyond capacity, lawmakers and stakeholders are assessing different ways to handle the incredible volume of patients suddenly needing care. One...more

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OSHA Issues Pertaining to Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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The current Coronavirus Pandemic (“COVID-19”) presents many complex situations for employers and their respective workforces. While management is trying to navigate the maze of wage and hour issues, FMLA and ADA leave, remote...more

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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): Employer FAQs

- The continued spread of COVID-19 presents employers with an array of unprecedented workforce management and public health challenges. - Decisions that employers may be called upon to make implicate a variety of...more

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Special Bulletin: Guidance to Employers for Responding to the Coronavirus

- With the WHO having declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, companies should take reasonable precautions to protect themselves and their personnel. - Below are some suggested practices United...more

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Coronavirus alert for employers: It’s about facts over fear, planning over panic

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As the COVID-19 Coronavirus problem grows, employers will face increasing challenges on a variety of workplace issues. Health experts anticipate travel restrictions, business closings, suspension of schools, and widespread...more

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Comprehensive And Updated FAQs For Employers On The COVID-19 Coronavirus

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Fisher Phillips has assembled a cross-disciplinary taskforce of attorneys across the country to address the many employment-related issues facing employers in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus – especially now that the...more

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Special Bulletin: Suggested Practices for Responding to the Coronavirus

- With the World Health Organization having declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, firms should take reasonable precautions to protect themselves and their personnel. - Below are some suggested...more

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COVID-19 FAQs And 10-Point Action Plan For Educational Institutions

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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently addressed the possible spread of COVID-2019 coronavirus across the United States and outlined contingency recommendations for schools and businesses. To help schools think...more

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CDC, OSHA Issue Guidance on Dealing with Coronavirus in the Workplace

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Both the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have published interim guidance for employers on planning for and protecting their workplaces from exposure...more

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Coronavirus: Employers Should Plan, Not Panic

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Coronavirus, whose formal name is COVID-19, has been the subject of much media attention since the first outbreak in Wuhan, China, late last year. Just like recent outbreaks of the swine flu, the avian flu, SARS and the West...more

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CDC Publishes Interim Coronavirus Guidance for Employers

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently published interim guidance for businesses and employers regarding coronavirus. The CDC notes that "this interim guidance is based on what is currently known about the...more

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#WorkforceWednesday: Coronavirus Balancing Act, Vaccination Requirements, #MeToo - Employment Law This Week®

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It’s #WorkforceWednesday! We invite you to watch the week’s top workforce management and employment law news, and read about the most significant developments impacting employers. Coronavirus Outbreak: A Balancing Act for...more

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Coronavirus: What Should Schools, Colleges, and Universities Do Now?

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The risk of coronavirus may be lower than the flu, but with the numbers of cases and fatalities growing in China and a handful of cases in the United States, some are calling for schools, colleges, and universities to take...more

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What Employers Need to Know about Coronavirus

Although there have only been a handful of confirmed cases of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV or the “coronavirus”) within the United States so far, employers are nevertheless well-advised to take affirmative steps to...more

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Coronavirus and influenza: Key issues for employers

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While the coronavirus warrants and continues to receive careful attention, experts warn that the flu may be far more deadly in 2020. February marks the peak of flu season. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control...more

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[Podcast]: How Employers Can Deal with the Coronavirus

In this episode of The Proskauer Brief, partners Harris Mufson and Guy Brenner discuss the coronavirus and what employers should be thinking about regarding that virus in the workplace. While the Occupational Safety and...more

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Cal/OSHA Guidance on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Cal/OSHA has issued guidance on protecting workers from exposure to 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV or Coronavirus)....more

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Employers Should be Prepared to Deal with Coronavirus

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With the worldwide cases of coronavirus tripling in the past week, and the eleventh case confirmed in the United States, U.S. employers are examining what necessary precautions should be taken to control and prevent the...more

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Responding to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus: Guidance for US Employers

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The outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has created a number of questions and compliance challenges for employers in the United States as well as across the globe. This is a fluid and rapidly changing...more

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What UK Employers Should Know About the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus Outbreak

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The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and Public Health England (PHE), have published guidance about the Wuhan novel coronavirus to the public in the UK and to UK travellers.The Foreign and Commonwealth office is...more

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Coronavirus Outbreak Causes Employers to Consider Precautionary Steps

The recent outbreak of the Coronavirus in Wuhan, China, which has spread to the United States with new cases being reported every day, has the global community on high alert. The Coronavirus is an upper-respiratory disease...more

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