Given a recent announcement by the Biden-Harris administration ending the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, CMS has stated that it will “soon end” its mandatory vaccination requirement.
On March 23, 2023, Ontario released its 2023 Ontario Budget: Building a Strong Ontario (2023 Budget). The Budget provides that Paid Infectious Disease Emergency Leave (Paid IDEL) will expire on March 31, 2023.
The Utah legislature recently passed H.B. 131, which prohibits employers, government entities, and places of public accommodation from using an individual’s immunity status as a restriction.
Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice issued the first judicial decision to find that a non-union employee’s refusal to comply with a COVID-19 vaccination policy imposed by a third party amounted to frustration of an employment contract.
Three months into the new legislative year, with all but a handful of state legislatures currently in session, clear employment law trends for 2023 have emerged.
As we mark the third anniversary of COVID-19 compliance challenges in the United States, we are gifting employers a roundup of where things stand with COVID-19 (or related) leave requirements.
