We address issues, cases and matters of statutory and regulatory compliance of employment law that can impact a business' growth and profitability.
On December 17, 2021, in a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the federal government’s request to end the Fifth Circuit’s stay of OSHA vaccine mandate.
On November 30, 2021, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky entered an order preliminarily blocking implementation and enforcement of the recent COVID-19 vaccine mandate imposed upon federal contractors and subcontractors earlier this month.
On November 10, 2021, Acting Associate General Counsel Joan A. Sullivan issued a memorandum to all Regional Directors of the National Labor Relations Board, advising them regarding the position of the Office of the General Counsel (“Office”) on the basic legal framework that they will apply to the employer’s duty to bargain the implementation of the COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) that was recently issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”).
On November 4, 2021, the White House finally announced some of the key details of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for COVID-19 vaccination in the workplace.