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For just the next few days, who gives a you-know-what about vaccine mandates and booster shots? Continue reading
Eric, we’re just gonna wait and see what happens with the OSHA vax-or-test mandate
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Thank you to those of you who participated in yesterday’s OSHA vax-or-test survey. Continue reading
Does your private business have more than 99 employees? Take this quick vax-or-test poll.
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Over the weekend, a colleague asked a few of us how (if?) most private employers with more than 99 employees are prepping their workplaces for the OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate in light of its uncertain fate at the Sixth Circuit — especially after the beatdown that OSHA took at the Fifth Circuit.
And I was like, ” I don’t know.”
So, perhaps the best blog readers in the world can help. Continue reading
See you in court, err, arbitration! SCOTUS to decide whether litigating an employment dispute first precludes arbitrating it later
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If your company makes its employees sign arbitration agreements, then this post is for you.
The rest of you can get an early start on happy hour find something else to read while sipping your morning cup of coffee. Continue reading
The EEOC updated its COVID-19 guidance again with new information on retaliation
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While nerds like me were flooding LinkedIn with status updates about Sixth Circuit this and OSHA ETS that, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was hosting a secret “virtual dialogue” with the employer Illuminati about retaliation updating its COVID-19 Technical Assistance to include additional information on retaliation.
Anything 🤯? Continue reading
The Sixth Circuit “won the lottery” and will decide the fate of the OSHA vax-or-test mandate
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Filed Under: Every Employment Law Blogger Will Be Blogging About This Today.
Employer wigs out over an African American employee’s hair; EEOC claims race discrimination
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In recent years, some states and municipalities have made it unlawful to discriminate based on an individual’s hairstyle because certain protected classes — usually Black women — receive unfair treatment based on inherent hair texture and protective hairstyles, like braids, locs, and twists. Why, yesterday, Tempe became the second city in Arizona to pass a hair discrimination ban.
There’s nothing explicit under federal antidiscrimination law, like Title VII, that outlaws hair discrimination. But, that hasn’t stopped the EEOC from pursuing related claims for race discrimination. Continue reading
The Fifth Circuit just dunked hard on OSHA’s vax-or-test mandate
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On Friday afternoon, when four of my FisherBroyles employer law partners and I were dissecting the OSHA vax-or-test Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on Zoom — ICYMI, you can watch the replay here on The Employer Handbook YouTube Channel (https://bit.ly/TheEmployerHandbookYouTube) — I asked them to raise their hand if they thought that the ETS would ultimately survive judicial scrutiny.
No one did. Continue reading
Drop that COVID-19 religious accommodation exemption form says one EEOC Commissioner
form by Jason Tropp from the Noun Project
Before I tell you which COVID-19 religious accommodation form you need to trash right away, don’t forget that today is the big, free live Zoom on the new OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate. Join me and my partners Amy Epstein Gluck, David Renner, Sid Steinberg, Gordon Berger at Noon ET. Register here (https://bit.ly/OSHAETSZoom). Continue reading
Three federal agencies want to end retaliation by hosting a “virtual dialogue” with employers next week.
Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced a joint initiative to raise awareness about retaliation issues when workers exercise their protected labor rights. Continue reading