As fast and mercurial as HR compliance has been in the age of COVID-19, we hit hyperdrive in the past few months. The headliner was the OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate that surfaced in November, only to be stayed, then unstayed, and then stayed again at the Supreme Court last week. The…
Photo by Mr. Kjetil Ree., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday was an “opinion day” at the Supreme Court. And, at 10 AM, as expected, the Supreme Court issued an opinion. Unfortunately, it wasn’t in the OSHA vax-or-test Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) case. But, surprise, surprise! At about 2:45…
Waiting (im)patiently until 10 am for this Supreme Court OSHA vax-or-test mandate ruling like… Perhaps, I’ll be back later today with a second blog post.
via GIPHY Eventually **clicks refresh again on the Supreme Court’s website**, yes, eventually, the Supreme Court is going to decide whether to stay OSHA’s vax-or-test mandate a/k/a the Emergency Temporary Standard a/k/a the ETS. If the Supreme Court enters a stay, that means the ETS is dead, right? Well, maybe…
dronepicr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons We still don’t know **clicks refresh on the Supreme Court’s website** whether the OSHA vax-or-test mandate will survive Supreme Court scrutiny. But, in the meantime, the Biden Administration announced some big news yesterday about at-home COVID-19 tests. Starting on Saturday, January 15, 2022,…
As a younger lawyer, I once told a client — right before an age discrimination trial — that winning the case would be like sinking a two-foot putt. I nearly choked on those words when, during deliberations, the jury asked the judge how unemployment compensation should factor into an award…
In an unintentionally-pervy post a few days ago, I told you that the CDC was considering amending its COVID-19 isolation guidance for asymptomatic individuals (and those with resolving symptoms) to include testing. That change did follow. Except, here’s the thing. You can test if you want to. Or you can…
After yesterday’s blog posts, you must be somewhat perplexed. First, why did I publish a blog post yesterday with the same title but no actual body? Well, you see, I planned to blog yesterday about the upcoming oral argument on the OSHA COVID-19 vax-or-test mandate and set that post to…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) decision last week to shorten its recommended COVID-19 isolation and quarantine periods to five days for asymptomatic individuals (followed by masking for five more days) did not go over well with many folks. The CDC changed the rule because “science demonstrat[es] that the majority…
If it had anything to do with COVID-19 vaccination mandates, y’all were reading. That and the third-most-read post, which leaves me wondering whether I should be taking out a restraining order against some of you. Here are the most-read posts from 2021: 5. “And just like that, the CMS vaccine…