Image Credit: Google Street View While warming up benching 315 lbs. at the gym yesterday, I listened to The Howard Stern Show. And I heard Howard talking about a private school in Florida that — get this — will force students to stay home for 30 days after every COVID-19…
By U.S. Government – Extracted from PDF file here, Public Domain, Link Without any fanfare or press release (sigh), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission updated its list of frequently asked questions entitled “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws.” The…
Image by torstensimon from Pixabay Ever since a federal judge in Texas upheld a workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandate back in June, the consensus among judges and lawyers was that employers could require workers to get a COVID-19 shot as a condition of employment. But, recently, the State of New York…
Image Credit: Pxfuel.com Possibly as early as next week, reports NBC News. Back in early September, President Biden instructed OSHA to prepare an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring private employers with 100+ employees to require workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or test them regularly. Late Tuesday evening, OSHA reportedly submitted…
AnonMoos based on image by Darwinek, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons First it was Montana. And now Texas has become the second state to prohibit vaccine mandates. Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order stating that no entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccination by any…
An employer has a policy that permits employees to work remotely one day every two weeks. An employee with a disability (PTSD and anxiety disorders) requests to work remotely twice per week and work weekends to make up for any lost time. That seems like a reasonable accommodation. Or not…
daveynin from United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Do you remember that scene in The Shawshank Redemption where Morgan Freeman’s character ‘Red’ is working the checkout line at a local grocery store? After he finishes bagging someone’s items, he looks over at his manager and says, “Restroom break,…
Image Credit: Piqsels.com Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a Texas man received 15 months in prison for perpetrating a hoax related to COVID-19 after a federal jury found him guilty of two counts of 18 U.S.C. § 1038, which criminalizes false information and hoaxes related to…
Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Earlier this week, Governor Phil Murphy announced that he had signed A681 into law, which expands the scope of the Law Against Discrimination (LAD) — already one of the most comprehensive anti-discrimination laws in the country — by providing protections against age discrimination…
Image Credit: Piqsels.com Yes, I think I did. So, I’ll let you in on it. In September, President Biden signed an Executive Order requiring federal employees to get vaccinated as a condition of employment. This week, the federal government updated its Frequently Asked Questions for Vaccinations for federal sector workers.…