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The Employer Handbook BlogThinking 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
The rise in antisemitism should have your attention because it is squarely on the EEOC’s radar.
Over the weekend, a man held four people, including a rabbi, hostage for over ten hours at a synagogue in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Fortunately, the four hostages escaped — they were not released. Their captor died following a standoff with local and federal law enforcement officials. 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.
Insurance carriers will soon have to pay for COVID-19 at-home tests — up to 8 per person per month.
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We still don’t know **clicks refresh on the Supreme Court’s website** whether the OSHA vax-or-test mandate will survive Supreme Court scrutiny.
But, in the meantime, the Biden Administration announced some big news yesterday about at-home COVID-19 tests. Continue reading
The feds are suing a company and its owner that paid a former employee’s final paycheck in pennies — about 91,500 of them.
Roman Oleinik, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
If this isn’t karma, friends, I don’t know what is. Continue reading