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Wave of Deregulation Hits DOL: What Employers Need to Know About the 60+ Rules on the Chopping Block

Fisher Phillips on 7/9/2025

The U.S. Department of Labor just quietly launched one of the most sweeping deregulatory efforts in recent memory, advancing over 60 proposals that could reshape workplace rules across industries. From overtime and minimum...more

The First 100 Days: President Trump’s Federal Policy Revamp and New Compliance Concerns for Employers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 5/5/2025

On April 29, 2025, President Donald Trump completed his first one hundred days of his second term in office. During this time, the president issued numerous executive orders (EOs) and implemented actions that significantly...more

No Slowing Down: Employers’ Recap of the Trump Administration’s First 50 Days

Fisher Phillips on 3/13/2025

While new presidents are typically judged based on their actions in their first 100 days, the current Trump administration has moved at such a rapid speed that we think another recap is needed at the halfway point. Here’s...more

State Law Considerations Under a New Administration

Conn Maciel Carey LLP on 1/24/2025

As eyes turned toward Washington this week and what employers anticipate on a range of labor and employment law issues, practitioners are keeping a close eye on how the changing landscape at the federal level may impact state...more

The Site Report - Construction Industry Insights, Issue 12, December 2024

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 12/20/2024

Welcome to our year-end issue of The Site Report! As always, the construction industry is ever-changing and is impacted by extreme weather, new technology, labor issues, material and supply chain restraints, and code changes....more

Fifth Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction Blocking Federal Contractor COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 12/22/2022

On December 19, 2022, a panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 federal contractor vaccine mandate. The 2-1 panel...more

Beltway Buzz - August 2022 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/15/2022

Congressional Update. It’s the dog days of summer in Washington, D.C., and both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives are out on recess. But Congress is still making news....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

A Second Look: Parties Spar Over Vaccine Mandate In Eleventh Circuit Appeal From EO 14042 Injunction

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Government... on 2/25/2022

It has been more than two months since the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a nationwide preliminary injunction of Executive Order 14042, the Biden Administration’s effort to impose a vaccine...more

As the Federal Vaccine Mandates Fall One by One, Employers Are Left to Navigate a Maze of Uncertainty Amid State and Local Laws

Venable LLP on 2/4/2022

In September 2021, President Biden announced a series of emergency worker protection regulations to combat surging positive test rates caused by the COVID-19 Delta variant. On September 9, 2021, the White House issued...more

The Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Are Barely Hanging On

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 1/31/2022

The vaccine mandates President Biden announced on September 9 have not aged well. Two are enjoined nationwide and a skeptical Supreme Court so undermined one that the government withdrew it, at least for the immediate future....more

OSHA Formally Withdraws COVID-19 Vaccination ETS

Laner Muchin, Ltd. on 1/26/2022

On Wednesday, January 26, 2022, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a notice that it had formally withdrawn the OSHA COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that...more

Federal Contractors’ Alert: Your Vaccine Mandate Has Been Halted….Again

Amundsen Davis LLC on 1/25/2022

On December 7, 2021, we brought to you the news that U.S. District Court Judge R. Stan Baker in the Southern District of Georgia put a nationwide halt on the federal contractor vaccination mandate. On January 21, 2022 Judge...more

The Supreme Court Has Stayed OSHA’s Vaccine-or-Test Emergency Temporary Standard. Now What?

McCarter & English, LLP on 1/20/2022

On Thursday, January 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine-or-test Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). This halts OSHA’s enforcement of...more

Supreme Court Blocks OSHA Vax-or-Test ETS

Wiley Rein LLP on 1/14/2022

What: On January 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), which required businesses with at least 100 employees to ensure their...more

Employer Primer on COVID-19 Vaccination Policies

McGlinchey Stafford on 1/13/2022

The Supreme Court is currently considering the validity of two rules promulgated by federal agencies in the past months regarding vaccines and testing in the workplace. Whether those rules—OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard...more

Status of Recent Federal and NYC Workplace Vaccination and Testing Mandates

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/7/2022

At President Joe Biden’s urging, three arms of the federal government issued high-visibility vaccine mandates over the last several months. On September 9, 2021, the Biden administration issued Executive Order 14042, which...more

Labor and Employment Law: What’s New in 2022

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/30/2021

Although the first of January is ultimately just another day in the grand scheme of things, many of us attach a special significance to it. It is a day where we symbolically leave our problems behind and press forward to see...more

2022: The Year for Construction Employers to Get Employment Law Compliance Done

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 12/30/2021

With the start of a new year, there is no better time to take on employment law compliance. For many companies in the construction industry, HR issues often get pushed to the back burner, sometimes due to small HR...more

A Dizzying Map of Federal Vaccination Mandates, Injunctions and Stays

Holland & Knight LLP on 12/23/2021

Keeping track of a dizzying number of injunctions and stays by multiple federal district courts and courts of appeal involving three separate federal COVID-19 vaccination mandates with a couple exceptions is no small task....more

If the Government Contractor Vaccine Mandate Doesn’t Get You, the OSHA ETS Might

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 12/22/2021

In the past few days, there have been multiple developments in the legal challenges to the various vaccine mandates, one in favor of a mandate, one against. In addition, the first vaccine mandate challenge has now reached the...more

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Reinstates OSHA ETS

Wiley Rein LLP on 12/21/2021

WHAT: On December 17, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dissolved the stay of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s Emergency Temporary Standard (OSHA and the ETS) previously ordered...more

Federal Vaccine Mandates: Where Employers Stand Now

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 12/17/2021

This week in Vaccine Mandate/Injunction Land. Well, kids, it's been another riotous week in the world of federal vaccine mandates. Here is where everything stands as of Friday morning Eastern Time, December 17, 2021:...more

Beltway Buzz - December 2021 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 12/13/2021

Federal Contractor Vax Requirement Blocked. On December 7, 2021, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia preliminarily enjoined President Joe Biden’s Executive Order (EO) 14042 (requiring...more

Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Blocked in Nationwide Injunction

Perkins Coie on 12/13/2021

On December 7, 2021, a federal district court in Georgia issued a nationwide injunction blocking the federal contractor vaccine mandate and other protocols. In a 28-page decision, the district court determined that the...more

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