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DE Under 3: DEAMcon22, Remarks from OFCCP Director Yang & EEOC Commissioner Sonderling & Vaccine Mandate Updates
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Federal Vaccine Mandates: What’s Next for Employers?
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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
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more
On March 22, 2022, Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox signed HB 63 into law, amending legislation passed in the Utah Legislature’s second special session of 2021 related to vaccine mandates in the workplace. The law will become...more
On January 19, 2022, Governor Philip D. Murphy signed Executive Order (EO) 283, which requires that healthcare workers and those at high-risk congregate settings be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including receipt of a...more
In his most recent attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19, on January 13, 2022, Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi once again issued back-to-back executive orders (EO) implementing additional COVID-19 restrictions and...more
El Ministerio de Trabajo de Colombia, el 12 de enero de 2022, expidió la Circular 0003 donde se promueven por el Estado medidas adicionales para la reactivación económica, destinadas a evitar la propagación del COVID-19,...more
On December 31, 2021, Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi issued Executive Order No. 2021-87 (EO) requiring first responders and certain private sector personnel to receive the COVID-19 vaccine booster shot in order to be...more
As COVID-19 variants work their way through the Greek alphabet, California employers have new CDC guidelines, new Cal-OSHA and CDPH requirements, new decisions to make with respect to vaccine and testing mandates, and when...more
The New York City Council approved a bill that amends the City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act to require employers to provide paid COVID-19 child vaccination leave. Without signature from Mayor Bill de Blasio, the bill...more
On December 20, 2021, the City of Boston announced a new vaccination mandate, the “Temporary Order Requiring COVID-19 Vaccination for Indoor Entertainment, Recreation, Dining, and Fitness Settings in the City of Boston” (the...more
Earlier today, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a first-in-the-nation vaccine mandate covering all private-sector workers in NYC that will take effect on December 27, 2021. According to Mayor de Blasio, the mandate will...more
On November 16, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was selected during the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation’s lottery to hear the multiple consolidated challenges to the recent COVID-19 Emergency...more
With a new President inaugurated in 2021, the OFCCP has slowly begun shifting its policies and enforcement practices. While it has been relatively a quiet year in 2021 with few major AAP changes, contractors should anticipate...more
On November 5, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued an interim final rule requiring that a wide variety of providers and suppliers participating in the Medicare program ensure their staff are...more
Deviating from recent labor courts’ decisions and Labor Prosecutor’s Office recommendations, on November 1, 2021, Brazil’s Ministry of Labor and Welfare (a body of the Federal Government) issued Ordinance # 620/2021,...more
On August 3, 2021, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the “Key to NYC” program (“Key to NYC” or the “Program”), which implemented new mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements for employees and patrons of certain...more
Federal Minimum Wage Increases to $15 on January 30, 2022 - Federal prime contractors and subcontractors should prepare to pay a higher mandatory minimum wage starting January 30, 2022....more
New Cal/OSHA COVID-19 prevention regulations — set to go into effect no later than June 15 — were withdrawn late Wednesday by the Cal/OSHA Standards Board. The move took employers who had been preparing for weeks to comply...more
In connection with Santa Clara County’s move into California’s yellow COVID-19 tier, the state’s lowest pandemic restriction level under its tier system, the county’s health officer updated its Health Order, effective May 19,...more
On May 19, 2021, Santa Clara County moved from the orange tier to the yellow tier of California’s color-coded reopening plan. Entering the yellow tier allows the County to expand capacity in businesses, gyms, movie theatres,...more
On March 8, 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued its first set of public health recommendations for fully vaccinated people in non-healthcare settings. The new recommendations detail (1) how...more
Learning Objectives: - What’s next - preparing and responding to COVID-19 - CARES Act update, funding and compliance - Update and tips for navigating executive order, regulatory and legislative changes - Telehealth...more