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And just like that, the CMS vaccine mandate is back on in 26 states. Ok, 25 states. Maybe.
On Wednesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals — the same federal appellate court that stayed OSHA’s vaccine-or-test Emergency Temporary Standard — breathed new life into another federal vaccine mandate. I’m talking about the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services healthcare COVID-19 vaccine mandate (the “CMS Rule”). Continue reading
One of the Sixth Circuit judges couldn’t resist sharing his two cents on OSHA’s vax-or-test mandate
As the business community patiently awaits a ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on whether the Fifth Circuit correctly stayed the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard, we did get a significant Sixth Circuit ruling yesterday. Continue reading
PSA: Hire a lawyer to draft your employment agreements. Otherwise, you may end up like this.
And by “this,” I mean spending a lot more on lawyers to defend a breach of contract claim from a former employee who claims that the employment agreement she signed promised a guaranteed year of employment.
Don’t discriminate. (But, if you do, don’t make it THIS EASY for the EEOC to nail you for it.)
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.) Continue reading
Is it legal to fire over 900 employees at once over Zoom?
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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. Continue reading
And now ALL of the federal COVID-19 mandates for private sector employers are STAYED
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(For private sector employers, at least.) Continue reading
