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I really wanted to blog about the policemen who got fired for catching Pokémon rather than criminals. But, sigh, I’ll save that for a future blog post. Continue reading
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OSHA: The ETS is dead as a temporary standard. Long live the ETS as a proposed rule!
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced yesterday that it has decided to withdraw the vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard issued on Nov. 5, 2021, covering large employers with 100 or more employees. The withdrawal is effective today.
But check the fine print. Continue reading
A federal judge entered a nationwide injunction on yet another federal vaccine mandate
WTH is even left to enjoin anyway? Continue reading
Thinking about reversing your new COVID-19 vaccine and testing requirements? Could be a trend.
And some of the largest companies are leading it. Continue reading
UK is lifting many COVID-19 restrictions. Should we be doing the same?
According to the Associated Press (here) and the BBC (here), Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the end of COVID-19 “Plan B.” Continue reading
Why did SCOTUS greenlight government-mandated COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare workers but not private-sector workers?
One word explains why the Supreme Court allowed the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to require the staff of twenty-one types of Medicare and Medicaid healthcare providers to be fully vaccinated (the “CMS Mandate“), while it stayed the OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate. Continue reading
Zoom Happy Hour returns on Friday, 1/21/22, at 12 ET for a COVID-19 checkup and mailbag
As fast and mercurial as HR compliance has been in the age of COVID-19, we hit hyperdrive in the past few months.
As you’ve probably heard by now, the Supreme Court torpedoed OSHA’s vax-or-test mandate
Photo by Mr. Kjetil Ree., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Yesterday was an “opinion day” at the Supreme Court. And, at 10 AM, as expected, the Supreme Court issued an opinion.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t in the OSHA vax-or-test Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) case. Continue reading
Today has to be the day, right? Right?!?
Waiting (im)patiently until 10 am for this Supreme Court OSHA vax-or-test mandate ruling like…
Perhaps, I’ll be back later today with a second blog post.
Could your state still enforce OSHA’s vax-or-test mandate — even if the Supreme Court scuttles it?
Eventually **clicks refresh again on the Supreme Court’s website**, yes, eventually, the Supreme Court is going to decide whether to stay OSHA’s vax-or-test mandate a/k/a the Emergency Temporary Standard a/k/a the ETS.
If the Supreme Court enters a stay, that means the ETS is dead, right?
Well, maybe not everywhere–especially if your state has an OSHA-approved state plan.