SELF Magazine, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, I read two more decisions (here and here) from federal judges evaluating mandatory vaccination policies. Both involved attempts by plaintiffs to obtain a preliminary injunction to avoid getting the jab. One involved a student at a public university; the other involved…
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay If your company (regardless of employee headcount) performs work on federal government contracts, then the government has some additional information for you on mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations and masking. And I’m here to fill you in on the three high points. Covered contractors must ensure…
Henning Schlottmann (User:H-stt), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Over at the FisherBroyles Employment Law Blog, my partner, Amy Epstein Gluck, wrote here about a recent federal court finding that a Catholic school could not avoid discrimination claims after firing a gay teacher from a secular position. Serendipitously, I just…
Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay I’ll give you a few seconds to pick your jaws up off the floor before I continue. The Newberg Graphic (here) appears to be the first one to break the news: A staff member at [an] Elementary School in Newberg showed up to work in…
Image by Venita Oberholster from Pixabay Several states and cities require that individuals wear masks in indoor public places, regardless of vaccination status. Independent of any state or local law, many businesses require the same. In either case, you’d think that not only would those rules apply to everyone, but…
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Yesterday, my friend Jon Hyman blogged about fetal stem cells and vaccine-mandate religious exemptions. TL;DR. Any employee that refused the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines because they contain aborted fetal cells is full of 💩. They don’t. Consequently, any religious exemption request that an…
Well, that didn’t take long. The State of Arizona has sued President Biden to stop his vaccination mandate for private employers. Head on over to The Employer Handbook YouTube channel (https://bit.ly/TheEmployerHandbookYouTube) for a short video update. And while you’re there, check out the replay of “Mandatory Vaccinations At Work Just…
Image by torstensimon from Pixabay Join me, Amy Epstein Gluck, David Renner, Sid Steinberg, and Gordon Berger on Zoom today at Noon EDT for “Mandatory Vaccinations At Work Just Got Real!” Five employment attorneys will address everything relating to President Biden’s new vaccination/testing mandate. You can still register for the event here. We’ve already received a…
Image by Viktor Ivanchenko from Pixabay Since you asked, sure. If you hung in there with me through the end of yesterday’s post about the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s first Americans with Disabilities Act – COVID-19 lawsuit, I casually mentioned that for the first time, the EEOC recognizes that…
E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!! (And how ’bout ‘dem Cowboys!) The U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has said that when an employer permits employees to telework to slow or stop the spread of COVID-19, the employer has not committed itself to automatically granting telework as a reasonable accommodation to every employee with a…