The New York Department of Health ("DOH") has issued a Dear Administrator Letter ("DAL"), stating, "beginning November 22, 2021, all covered entities must ensure that covered 'personnel' under the Department’s August 26, 2021 – [...]
Although New York has had an employment-related whistleblower statute for decades, many employers may not have been aware of it. That is because the statute itself – N.Y. Labor Law Section 740 – has [...]
On November 8, 2021, Governor Hochul signed legislation amending the State civil rights law to add a new provision requiring employers who engage in electronic monitoring to notify workers of such. The amendment (A.430/S.2628), which [...]
The New York Secure Choice Savings Program Act (the “program”) was enacted into law as part of the 2018-19 New York State Budget. The program was designed to create a system where employees that [...]
On November 10, 2021, 10 states led by Eric S. Schmitt, the attorney general of the State of Missouri, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri seeking [...]
Last night, the OSHA regulation requiring vaccination or weekly testing for all employees of employers with 100 or more employees was blocked again by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which called the [...]
Over the weekend, on Saturday, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana) issued a temporary injunction, “blocking” the OSHA ETS from taking effect. The Court noted “grave statutory and [...]
Last week, when the OSHA ETS was first issued, we provided a high-level overview of the requirements of the ETS. Since that time, we have received a number of questions regarding the impact of the [...]
On the same day that OSHA issued its emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) requiring vaccination of employees of companies with 100 or more employees, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published its own [...]
This morning, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") released its highly anticipated emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) requiring businesses with at least 100 employees to mandate that their employees get vaccinated against the coronavirus [...]