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The Employer Handbook BlogIt turns out that women filming gifts of sex toys to male colleagues is not ok in Australia
Almost everything I know about Australia comes from The Simpsons. Continue reading
In plain English, here’s why the government can’t force healthcare workers to get COVID-19 shots
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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 December 6, 2021, and the second vaccine by January 4, 2022. Otherwise, the government can withhold Medicare and Medicare funding.
Surely, CMS has a strong interest in having safe healthcare facilities? So, why then did a federal judge forbid enforcement of the CMS Rule in all 50 states? Continue reading
A federal court has blocked the government’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal contractors
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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 got news on the big hit that the Executive Order mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for employees of certain federal contractors (the “Contactor EO”) just took. Continue reading
Meanwhile, the CMS healthcare COVID-19 vaccine mandate isn’t faring much better
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What do we have here? Is that glass half-full or half-empty? Continue reading
When will the court decide whether OSHA’s vax-or-test mandate is legal?
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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. Continue reading
Let’s rank the top Thanksgiving foods for 2021. (Can anything take down stuffing?!?)
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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