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To read this alert as a PDF, click here. Yesterday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a narrow 5 to 4 decision, lifted two injunctions blocking a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) Vaccine Mandate.  This means CMS may move forward with enforcement of its Vaccine Mandate pending further […]

To read this alert as a PDF, click here.  This afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6 to 3 decision, issued a stay against the OSHA COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (the “ETS”).  This means that OSHA is prohibited from enforcing the ETS and that employers are […]

On Friday, December 17, 2021, a divided three-judge panel for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the stay on OSHA’s Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (the “OSHA ETS”). With the stay removed, the OSHA ETS is enforceable, and covered employers with at least 100 employees will need to […]

To read this Alert in PDF format, click here. Yesterday afternoon (December 7, 2021), a federal district court in Georgia issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against Executive Order 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors (the “Order”). This comes on the heels of other federal courts issuing injunctions against COVID-19 rules […]

We have continued to monitor court cases regarding the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Interim Rule. This Alert summarizes important new information we have learned recently about those rules that affect employers. To read this alert as a PDF, click here.  OSHA Emergency […]

To read this alert in PDF format, click here.  Over the past few months, we have watched the federal government engage in a flurry of activity regarding COVID-19. Much of this activity involves strongly encouraging or requiring employees in various industries and workplaces to become fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The […]

To read this Alert in PDF format, click here. On September 9, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors (the “Order”). In general, the Order announced that federal contractors and subcontractors would soon be required to abide by workplace safety protocols related […]

When a new law is enacted, it normally takes months and sometimes years before regulations are issued.  But that is not the case with the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the “Act”). On April 1, scarcely two weeks after the Act was enacted, and on the very day the Act […]

We are still waiting on regulations from the Department of Labor (“DOL”) for the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the “Act”), which requires most employers to provide paid leave due to COVID-19 issues. However, over the past few days, the DOL has issued several important pieces of guidance that you […]

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act was signed by the President on March 18 and will take effect no later than April 2, 2020. For a detailed memorandum summarizing the provisions of the Act, please click here. The Act requires most employers with fewer than 500 employees, along with most […]