Breaking Down the Shifting Vaccine Policy Landscape – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
DE Under 3: End Human Trafficking in Gov. Contracts Act & Vaccination Mandate Updates
#WorkforceWednesday: EEOC's LGBTQ+ Guidance Blocked, Employer COVID-19 Update, NYC Prepares for Pay Transparency Law - Employment Law This Week®
Podcast: Impact of COVID-19 on Pharmacist Scope of Practice: Before and After the PREP Act - Diagnosing Health Care
Employment Law Now VI-116-Top 10 Employment Issues To Consider For The Summer Kick-Off
Podcast: OSHA's Permanent COVID-19 Standard and Enforcement Blitz - Diagnosing Health Care
#WorkforceWednesday: CA COVID-19 Policies Get Updates, NYC Pay Transparency Law Postponed, DOL Targets Worker Retaliation - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: NYC Pay Transparency Law, Florida Diversity Training, and Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 ETS - Employment Law This Week®
DE Under 3: DEAMcon22, Remarks from OFCCP Director Yang & EEOC Commissioner Sonderling & Vaccine Mandate Updates
DE Under 3: Vaccine Mandate Updates, Contractor Unique Entity Identifiers, EEOC Nominations & A Reduced VEVRAA Hiring Benchmark
#WorkforceWednesday: EEOC COVID-19 Charges Surge, NYC’s Pay Transparency Law, SCOTUS Considers PAGA - Employment Law This Week®
Hot Spots in Employment Law 2022
Federal Vaccine Mandates: What’s Next for Employers?
DE Under 3: Disability Unemployment, Cornell ILR & USDOL Women's Bureau Webinar Series & More
HIPAA Tips With Williams Mullen - COVID Health Information and HIPAA – Do You Know the Rules?
Looking back at 2021 and ahead to 2022
DE Under 3: Vaccination Mandates Continuing & Federal Contractor Minimum Wage
Podcast: Owner's Outlook: Vaccine Mandate for Construction Workers at Health Care Facilities - Diagnosing Health Care
DE Under 3: OFCCP Contractor Portal & Request for Comments for Functional Affirmative Action Programs (FAAPs)
Employer Vaccine Mandates and Exemptions
Although the threat of COVID-19 (remember that?) seems to have diminished considerably over the past five years, once upon a time in Hollywood many production companies (along with other employers) required employees to be...more
While the Supreme Court declined to stay the implementation of the Occupational Safety and Health Agency’s vaccine mandate for employers with 100+ employees or to change the status of the rule issued by the Centers for...more
On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, in The State of Georgia, et. al. v. Biden, et. al., Case No. 1:21-cv-163, a federal district court judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a...more
On December 6, we noted on this blog post that because the injunction issued by the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on November 30 prohibiting the government from enforcing the government contractor...more
Many of us are understandably anxious to put another tumultuous year of the pandemic behind us. But before we sit down at the table to fill our plates and bellies to overflowing to celebrate the holiday, we can all find some...more
On November 4, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released its much-anticipated mandate-or-test workplace vaccine emergency rule (“the Rule”). The Rule requires employers with 100 or more employees to...more
On November 12, 2021, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed its stay pending judicial review of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary...more
On Friday, November 12, 2021, in BST Holdings, L.L.C., et. al. vs. Occupational Health and Safety Administration, et. al., Case: 21-60845, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the plaintiffs’ motion to stay...more
Yesterday, November 16, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (the “Panel”) held a lottery to select the federal appeals court to address the 34 petitions seeking review of the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing...more
On November 5, 2021, OSHA published its Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”), requiring private employers with 100 or more employees to establish, implement, and enforce a written mandatory vaccination or testing policy. ...more
Alabama has joined an ever-increasing number of states that have passed laws aimed at countering the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate. Alabama Senate Bill 9 restricts Alabama employers from requiring COVID-19...more
As we have previously reported, the recently announced Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) vaccine mandate, issued as an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), has been challenged in multiple suits filed around...more
OSHA published an ETS on Nov. 5, 2021, that applies to employers in all workplaces that are under OSHA's authority and jurisdiction that have more than 100 employees firmwide or companywide. The ETS requires, with certain...more
Immediately after OSHA published its Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing for private sector workers, various individuals, covered employers, states and other groups challenged its validity...more
On November 12, 2021, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order reaffirming its initial stay of the vaccination/testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) issued by the Occupational Safety and Health...more
On November 12, 2021, a three-member panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a sweeping order continuing its initial November 6, 2021, stay of the emergency temporary standard (ETS) that the...more
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a motion last week for a preliminary injunction filed by health care workers who object to a New York state COVID-19 vaccination mandate. The New York mandate contains medical...more
On November 5, 2021, the federal Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published its "COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing, Emergency Temporary Standard" (ETS) for employers with 100 or more...more
On Friday, November 5, Snell & Wilmer published a Legal Alert regarding the provisions and effective dates of the federal OSHA Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard ("ETS"). In that Legal Alert, we noted that...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) published on November 5, 2021, its emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) requiring most private employers with 100 or more employees to establish, implement, and...more
This weekend a federal court in Louisiana issued a temporary stay effectively stopping enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Emergency Temporary Standard requiring vaccination or weekly testing...more
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published their much-anticipated rules mandating COVID-19 vaccinations. ...more
On November 5th, 2021, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an emergency regulation that assigns US employers a central role in the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 pandemic response. Several...more
In a succinct decision issued earlier this week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (including states Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin) refused to issue an injunction pending the outcome of a...more
While the topic of vaccines dominates today’s news, the Eighth Circuit recently affirmed the dismissal of constitutional challenges to Missouri’s mandatory form for requesting a religious exemption to the state’s...more