Perspectives on COVID-19 Labor & Employment Resources
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Effective August 2, 2021, Virginia’s Health and Safety Codes Board adopted OSHA’s, June 21, 2021, Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from occupational exposure to COVID-19.
After months of debate, Congress has passed, and President Trump is expected to sign, a COVID-19 relief, appropriations, and tax bill. Doubtlessly, the Bill, which is nearly 6,000 pages long, will undergo much scrutiny and analysis over the ensuing days and weeks.
On November 19, 2020, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (the Board) unanimously approved a set of emergency COVID-19 safety regulations that significantly expand the responsibilities of most California employers to prevent the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in the workplace.
As we previously reported, Maryland has passed several employment laws that go into effect on October 1, 2020.
SB 1159 expands the presumption of workers’ compensation liability for employees who contract COVID-19 due to a workplace outbreak.
Adding to various paid sick leave requirements that employers must navigate in the COVID-19 environment, California has once again expanded its state law paid sick leave mandates.
Yesterday, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission updated its technical assistance document, What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws.
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act allows eligible employees to take up to two weeks of paid sick leave and up to 12 weeks of expanded family and medical leave – 10 paid – for specified reasons related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On August 24, 2020, the US Department of Labor (DOL) issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2020-5 addressing employer obligations for tracking time worked by remote workforces.
On August 13, Mayor Muriel Bowser signed into law the “Protecting Businesses and Workers from COVID-19 Emergency Amendment Act of 2020.”
Many companies were caught off-guard in the spring when diagnoses of COVID-19 multiplied rapidly and forced businesses to close or drastically change their policies with little warning. Now companies that have reopened must prepare for the future.
United States District Court Judge J. Paul Oetken of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an opinion and order (Order) vacating four key aspects of the final rule to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), promulgated by the United States DOL.
This is our fifth and final Alert on Virginia’s groundbreaking emergency, temporary COVID-19 workplace safety standard.
In our last post, we discussed policy changes and new procedures that companies should consider as they reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly given the increase in cases in many parts of the country.
This is our fourth Alert that addresses Virginia’s groundbreaking emergency, temporary COVID-19 workplace safety standard.
This is our third Alert that addresses Virginia’s groundbreaking emergency, temporary COVID-19 workplace safety standard.
In our previous Alert, we summarized general employer mandates contained in Virginia’s groundbreaking emergency, temporary COVID-19 workplace safety standard.
Business closures have been immensely difficult for companies of all sizes during the COVID-19 pandemic. But reopening is proving difficult, too, especially given the ever-changing nature of the pandemic.
With the economy reopening, on June 11, 2020, the EEOC updated its COVID-19 Technical Assistance Publication — What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws — to identify concerns that employers may face as they plan for employees to return to the workpl
Under the National Labor Relations Act, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) conducts secret ballot elections to determine whether or not employees in a unit wish to be represented by a union.
We previously reported on how the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) and its state law equivalents would apply to layoffs, furloughs, and closings during the coronavirus pandemic.
Businesses across the country are facing challenges, including lawsuits, as they grapple with how COVID-19 has impacted their operations, work forces, and supply chains. The wave of litigation is rising, and it appears that no industry is immune.
On April 1, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a press release announcing its publication of a Final Rule on the paid sick leave requirements and family leave requirements of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA).
On March 27 and 28, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released additional question-and-answer style guidance on the emergency paid sick and family leave provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), which we first reported here.