On June 14, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the Pandemic Liability Protection Act, which provides liability protections for health care providers, businesses, non-profits, religious institutions and schools that follow certain safety protocols.
Marin County, California has enacted an urgency ordinance that requires employers in the County’s unincorporated areas with 25 or fewer employees to provide supplemental paid sick leave for certain COVID-19-related reasons through Sept. 30.
Just six weeks after holding that Ontario Regulation 228/20 under the ESA did not remove an employee’s common law right to claim constructive dismissal arising from a layoff during the pandemic, the Ontario SJC came to the opposite conclusion.
Employees are being hired, but for some businesses in some industries, there are new requirements in place which were not there at the start of the pandemic.
Since the EEOC released its updated COVID-19 guidance greenlighting vaccine incentives, many employers seized the opportunity to offer incentives to employees to both get vaccinated and voluntarily provide proof of vaccination.
On June 11, 2021, California’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board released its latest set of proposed revisions for re-adoption into Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards.
We’ve been hearing a lot of conflicting information about what we may and may not require of our employees. Because our business is public facing, may we at least ask our employees whether they are vaccinated?
On June 10, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration released its long-awaited COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), establishing new mandatory requirements generally applicable to the healthcare industry.
Following the implementation of mandatory paid leave on January 1, 2020, Nevada has again expanded workers’ leave rights with the enactment of Senate Bill No. 209 (SB 209) and Assembly Bill No. 190 (AB 190).
