On Monday, December 6, 2021, New York City’s outgoing mayor, Bill de Blasio, announced a “first-in-the-nation” COVID-19 vaccine mandate, requiring that all private sector employees working in person in New York City receive at least one dose of a COVID-19
Continue Reading New York City Announces First of its Kind Private Sector COVID-19 Mandate (US)
From our Capital Thinking blog, our public policy colleague Stacy Swanson shares the latest federal employment law developments in in the legislative and executive branches during the week of November 29, 2021.
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This is a weekly post spotlighting
Continue Reading US Federal Labor Viewpoints – Week of November 29, 2021
As we previously reported, President Biden issued Executive Order 14042 (the Order), which mandated that employees of contractors and subcontractors performing work on federal contracts be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 18, 2022. Challengers from seven states—Georgia, Alabama,
Continue Reading Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors Enjoined Nationwide
As we are sure you have heard, many people are not all that psyched about the federal government mandating that
Continue Reading Staying Current on the Stays, Updates on Federal Vaccine Mandates, and the Alabama Vaccine Exemption Law
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a significant expansion to his “Key to NYC” program on Monday, December 6, 2021. Previously, the Key to NYC program required people 12 and older to show proof of at least one vaccine dose in
Continue Reading NYC Expands Vaccine Mandate, Which Will Cover Private Employers and Children
On December 7, 2021, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia stayed the federal contractor vaccine mandate issued by the White House via Executive Order 14042 on September 9, 2021. This Court Order, which applies nationwide,
Continue Reading Enforcement of Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Halted Nationwide
As featured in #WorkforceWednesday: This week, we look at complying with the rules that require employers to keep employee COVID-19 vaccination and testing information confidential.
HIPAA, Employee Privacy Protections, and COVID-19
Regulations for employee COVID-19 vaccination or testing remain
Continue Reading Video: Employee Privacy and COVID-19, CMS Vaccine Mandate on Hold, Independent Contractor Classification – Employment Law This Week
Last week, we shared that a federal district court in Kentucky issued a preliminary injunction blocking the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors in all covered contracts in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. See Commonwealth of Kentucky
Continue Reading COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors is Now Blocked Nationwide
Today we start a new series of posts tackling the vexed area of workplace investigations. We will look at the background law, of which there is very little, and at best practice guidance, of which there is more than can
Continue Reading Looking into workplace investigations, Part 1 – what are you talking about? (UK)
Over the last two weeks or so, several federal courts have issued nationwide injunctions prohibiting the U.S. government from going forward with mandatory vaccination (or vax and test) rules that have been implemented.
First, it was the Fifth Circuit that
Continue Reading Federal Vaccine Mandates on Hold as Court (and Pandemic) Battles Rage
