The Employment Law Lookout Team is taking the holidays off to recharge and reflect on the year that was. We look forward to bringing you more interesting and thought provoking content as we enter into 2022.
We wish all of you a joyous and peace-filled new year. (Stay healthy and stay warm!)
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By Loren Gesinsky and Robert S. Whitman
Seyfarth Synopsis: New York City’s chief legal officer has shared some details about what to expect in the forthcoming regulations implementing the City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers, which takes effect on December 27, 2021.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on December 6, 2021 — as summarized here — that all
Continue Reading Details on NYC Vaccine Mandate Revealed
By James L. Curtis, Adam R. Young, Patrick D. Joyce, Daniel R. Birnbaum, and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Department of Labor Tweeted and blogged about the safety of workers during the busy holiday season, indicating an area of potential enforcement for OSHA in the coming weeks.
Unsurprisingly, OSHA has targeted workplace
Continue Reading Ho, Ho, Health and Safety! Keeping Workers Safe and Merry this Holiday Season
By A. Scott Hecker, Brent I. Clark, Benjamin D. Briggs, James L. Curtis, Adam R. Young, Ilana Morady, Patrick D. Joyce, and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) lottery selected the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit to hear the consolidated legal challenges to
Continue Reading U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Selected to Rule on OSHA COVID ETS Per Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
By Scott Hecker, Elisabeth Watson, and Karla Grossenbacher
Seyfarth Synopsis: Your dedicated Seyfarth Team has created a checklist to help covered employers achieve compliance with the OSHA COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) in timely fashion.
Pending legal challenges have called into question the viability of ETS, published in the Federal Register on November 5,
Continue Reading What Must Employers Do to Comply with OSHA’s ETS? Check out our Checklist for Answers
By Scott Hecker, Adam Young, Noah Finkel, David Baffa, Joshua Seidman, Laura Maechtlen, Camille Olson, Kristin McGurn, Lawrence Lorber, Brent Clark, Jim Curtis, Ben Briggs and Patrick D. Joyce
Seyfarth Synopsis: The much-anticipated OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) posted
Continue Reading OSHA Issues ETS for Public Inspection with January 4, 2022 Vaccination Deadline
By Adam R. Young, Melissa A. Ortega, and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: On October 28, 2021, an amendment to the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act passed the Illinois General Assembly and made its way to Governor Pritzker’s desk. The amendment creates a COVID-19 carve-out, but it will not go into effect until June 1,
Continue Reading A Swing and a Miss: Right to Conscience Objections to COVID-19 Vaccinations to Endure Until June 2022
Seyfarth Synopsis: On October 18, the DFEH issued Guidance which expressly approves denial of entry to individuals who cannot show a negative COVID test or proof of vaccination, refuse to have their temperature taken or respond to COVID-19 symptom screening questions, subject to providing reasonable accommodations to customers with disabilities.
In the latest COVID-related quandary, businesses
By James L. Curtis, Adam R. Young, Scott Hecker, and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: Federal OSHA is warning Arizona, South Carolina, and Utah that they risk a federal takeover of their worker safety programs unless they adopt a federal emergency temporary standard (ETS) protecting health-care workers from COVID -19.
OSHA published its
Continue Reading Three OSHA State Plans Under Fire for Failure to Adopt COVID Emergency Temporary Standard for Health Care
By Daniel I. Small and Robert S. Whitman
Seyfarth Synopsis: With little fanfare and no public reporting, the New York Commissioner of Health extended the designation of COVID-19 as highly contagious, thereby requiring employers to keep their safety plans activated through October 31, 2021.
As previously reported (here, here, and here), New York State’s health
Continue Reading NY HERO Act Update: Safety Plans Must Remain in Place