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Supreme Court Splits on Vaccine Mandates
Last week, the Supreme Court issued two opinions on COVID regulations impacting employers and workers across the country. In the first, the Court stayed OSHA’s “vaccine or test” mandate for employers with 100 or…
UPDATE ON COVID CONSIDERATIONS: Long COVID Now an ADA Disability
UPDATE: December 17, 2021 In a move that comes as no surprise, the EEOC has updated its COVID-19 technical assistance to provide guidance on when COVID-19 may be considered a “disability” under the ADA, making…
The Latest on Vaccines and Other COVID News
In a one-line ruling on Monday, December 13, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the last of the legal challenges to the vaccine mandate for health care workers in New York. It also dismissed a challenge to a…
Uncertainty with the Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate
Where the Mandate Stands and Current Considerations for Contractors and Subcontractors The federal contractor vaccine rollout continues to present thorny issues for federal contractors. President Biden issued…
Show Me a HERO: Department of Labor Clarifies New York’s HERO Act
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the serious threat posed by unchecked airborne infectious diseases, and has prompted New York to pass the Health and Essential Rights Act (aka the “HERO Act”), which serves to…