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The Employer Handbook BlogThis new bill would allow an employee to skip work “because the employee feels unsafe.”
I’ll admit it. I was wrong. Continue reading
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Biden signs #MeToo arbitration bill, Philly drops masks, and EEOC updates its COVID-19 guidance
What a Friday trifecta! The only thing better that could come in threes would be a gallon of Neapolitan ice cream — with chocolate instead of strawberry and vanilla. Continue reading
Why did a federal judge call an appellate decision on private COVID-19 mandates an “orgy of jurisprudential violence?”
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg in this blistering (albeit, PG-rated) 58-page dissent to yesterday’s non-precedential Fifth Circuit decision, in which the majority concluded that a private company’s workplace vaccine mandate could irreparably harm individuals with disabilities and strong religious beliefs. Continue reading
RUMOR: The feds are discussing more COVID-19 paid leave for private employers
I really wanted to blog about the policemen who got fired for catching Pokémon rather than criminals. But, sigh, I’ll save that for a future blog post. Continue reading
OSHA: The ETS is dead as a temporary standard. Long live the ETS as a proposed rule!
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced yesterday that it has decided to withdraw the vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard issued on Nov. 5, 2021, covering large employers with 100 or more employees. The withdrawal is effective today.
But check the fine print. Continue reading
A federal judge entered a nationwide injunction on yet another federal vaccine mandate
WTH is even left to enjoin anyway? Continue reading
Thinking about reversing your new COVID-19 vaccine and testing requirements? Could be a trend.
And some of the largest companies are leading it. Continue reading
UK is lifting many COVID-19 restrictions. Should we be doing the same?
According to the Associated Press (here) and the BBC (here), Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the end of COVID-19 “Plan B.” Continue reading
Why did SCOTUS greenlight government-mandated COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare workers but not private-sector workers?
One word explains why the Supreme Court allowed the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to require the staff of twenty-one types of Medicare and Medicaid healthcare providers to be fully vaccinated (the “CMS Mandate“), while it stayed the OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate. Continue reading