I have a lot of respect for human resource professionals. It’s not easy being in HR. Or so I hear. (No one has ever confused me with someone who put the “human” in human resources. I can be more of a, shall we say, jerk.) I know the types of…
Image by Lynn Kurtz from Pixabay News of a New York-based online mortgage lender’s CEO terminating over 900 employees with no notice on a three-minute Zoom call has been dominating my Google Alerts recently. There’s this NBCnews.com report from Elisha Fieldstadt, Ali Gostanian, and Bianca Britton. Noah Kirsch also reported…
Image Credit: Openclipart.org (For private sector employers, at least.) Last month, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed OSHA vax-or-test mandate. Last week, a Louisiana federal judge entered a nationwide injunction against the CMS healthcare COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Yesterday, a Georgia federal judge completed the trinity with a nationwide temporary ban on President…
Image Credit: Openclipart.org Wait, what? I’ll clear this up for you. First, let’s do a quick recap. On November 20, a federal court in Florida denied the State of Florida’s attempt to enjoin the interim final CMS rule mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all covered healthcare staff. You can view a…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com Weekdays since last vaccine mandate post: 1 0. (Sorry.) Even with my crypto mining servers recommissioned to track the pending vaccinate mandate lawsuits throughout the country, some items slip through the cracks. So, I must tip my crushed velvet, gold-trimmed blogger cap to Rosie Manins at Law360…
Almost everything I know about Australia comes from The Simpsons. For example, did you know that the water in flushed Australian toilets spins clockwise? (Except at the U.S. Embassy). Down under, they play a game called knifey-spoony. Bull frogs are chazwazzas. And, if you ask for coffee, they’ll serve you…
Image by torstensimon from Pixabay Yesterday, I mentioned briefly that a Louisiana federal judge entered a nationwide injunction against the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services healthcare COVID-19 vaccine mandate (the “CMS Rule”). The CMS Rule requires the staff of twenty-one types of Medicare and Medicaid healthcare providers to receive one vaccine by…
Photo Credit: Photofunia.com So much for that glass being half-full. For the government’s vaccine mandates, things are going from bad to — ah, you can read this sign. Yesterday, a Louisiana federal judge entered a nationwide injunction against the CMS healthcare COVID-19 vaccine mandate. I’ll detail that tomorrow. Today, I’ve…
S nova, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons What do we have here? Is that glass half-full or half-empty? A glass half-full. If you’re the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), perhaps you view the glass as half-full. Why? Because on November 20, a federal court in Florida denied…
Image by tigerlily713 from Pixabay I know. You have a business to run, and all of this uncertainty about whether OSHA can force COVID-19 vaccinations or weekly testing at companies with 100 or more employees isn’t helping. So, let’s see if we can at least clarify the timing. But, before…