Yesterday, I asked, “Will your business mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for employees?” Fortunately, no one went as far into the deep end as the gentleman whom Chris Cuomo interviewed on CNN 🤯. Otherwise, the poll results were about as I expected. Here they are: 6.7% – We already do 14% –…
Image by Please Don’t sell My Artwork AS IS from Pixabay Last week, I read the news that Sha’Carri Richardson, one of the favorites to win Olympic gold for the United States in the women’s 100-meter dash, was suspended for a month for testing positive for marijuana. As a management-side…
Image Credit: openfoodfacts.org I imagine that drink to be Ensure or Ovaltine, possibly Caffeine Free Coke Zero if things get nuts. Before face masks — or should I say no face masks — there was the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Among other things, the ARPA created a…
Image Credit: Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/en/marijuana-scales-legalization-drugs-2754249/) It’s been a minute since I’ve gotten to blog about the Americans with Disabilities Act and accommodating an individual with a disability and a marijuana card who uses doctor-prescribed marijuana off the clock. Better dust off the cannabis scales of justice for this one. The ADA…
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Shout out to the White House for providing plenty of blog fodder this week. On Tuesday, I told you about President Biden’s plan to unionize, like, everyone. Yesterday, the White House ordered that federal contractors…
Image Credit: cannabis chemical test by ProSymbols from the Noun Project As more states and localities legalize or decriminalize the use of recreational marijuana, the next logical step is to preclude employers from testing for marijuana use as a condition of employment. Why? It comes does to dollars and cents.…
Image by Shafin Al Asad Protic from Pixabay Last week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission confirmed that new COVID-19 vaccination incentive guidance would arrive soon. While we wait patiently for its arrival, yesterday, President Biden reminded employers with fewer than 500 employees that there’s already a paid leave tax…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com Since the EEOC last updated its “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws” resource document on December 16, 2020, it published proposed wellness rules only to walk them back less than a week later. So, several business groups…
DrRandomFactor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Like Freddie Bisco, the Ferrari salesman from Scent of a Woman, I’m known from coast to coast like butter and toast. So when it comes to whether businesses can require their employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine, who does KTUU Alaska’s News Source…
Image by Megan Rexazin from Pixabay On the last episode of The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour, we told you that it was only a matter of time before the U.S. Department of Labor issued both guidance and model notices to support the new COBRA premium subsidy under the American…