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All in a Day's Work: The Employer's Legal Guide

Colorado employers – are you providing required notices to your employees of all job postings and promotional opportunities?

By George W. Ingham & Eleanor deGolian Kasper

April 14, 2021

If your company has even one employee in Colorado, as of January 1, 2021, Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (EPEW) requires employers to notify employees within Colorado of all job postings and promotional opportunities, including those outside of Colorado. In some circumstances, the EPEW requires employers to provide compensation information relating to those postings and promotional opportunities. The law also imposes other requirements that are outlined briefly below.…

All in a Day's Work: The Employer's Legal Guide

OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard placed on “hold”

By George W. Ingham, Elizabeth Fawell, Christine Forgues & Zachary Siegel

April 8, 2021

On April 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh placed a “hold” on the implementation of a potential U.S. Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), which would set a national COVID-19 safety standard for OSHA-covered employers throughout the United States. While President Biden’s inauguration day Executive Order directed OSHA to focus its enforcement on COVID-19 efforts and set a March 15 deadline for determining whether an ETS was…

New Nuclear

Advanced Nuclear Included in Biden’s American Jobs Plan

By Amy Roma, Sachin Desai & Juliya Grigoryan

April 7, 2021

On March 31st, President Biden unveiled a massive $2 trillion infrastructure and clean energy plan called the American Jobs Plan that aims, in part, to tackle what the White House calls two of the greatest challenges of our time: the climate crisis and competition with China. Among the proposed investments, the American Jobs Plan calls for funding for the development of advanced nuclear reactors and for a clean electricity standard that can potentially support operating…

All in a Day's Work: The Employer's Legal Guide

American Rescue Plan Act’s COBRA health care premium subsidy

By Kurt L.P. Lawson & Patricia Ambrose

April 7, 2021

On March 12, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) into law, aiming to provide relief to individuals and businesses suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. ARPA impacts employer-sponsored health plans in several ways, including the implementation of a COBRA premium subsidy. Employers should be aware of the actions they must take in response to this change. COBRA requires an employer-sponsored group health plan to give employees who otherwise would lose coverage due…

All in a Day's Work: The Employer's Legal Guide

Pre-dispute employment arbitration agreements are enforceable in New Jersey, according to a recent ruling

By David J. Baron

April 5, 2021

On March 18, 2019, New Jersey amended the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) to include a provision that rendered unenforceable any “provision in an employment contract that waives any substantive or procedural right or remedy relating to a claim of discrimination, retaliation, or harassment.” On August 30, 2019, business advocates filed a lawsuit in the District of New Jersey, N.J. Civ. Justice Inst. v. Grewal, arguing that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts this…

All in a Day's Work: The Employer's Legal Guide

New York issues guidance on paid vaccination leave law

By Kenneth Kirschner & Zachary Siegel

April 1, 2021

As we previously discussed, New York passed legislation on March 12, 2021 to provide employees in the state with up to four hours of paid leave for each COVID-19 vaccination injection they receive. On March 21, 2021, the New York Department of Labor released Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that clarify several aspects of the new paid vaccination leave law. Our previous post on this new law raised several questions with regard to its application.…

All in a Day's Work: The Employer's Legal Guide

California brings back, and expands, COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave

By Tao Leung

March 30, 2021

On March 19, 2021 Governor Newsom signed into law SB 95 (adding sections 248.2 and 248.3 to the Labor Code), which requires employers to pay California employees up to two weeks of COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave (COVID-19 SPSL). This new law revives and expands the supplemental paid sick leave law that expired on December 31, 2020. As a result of these changes from the prior iteration of California’s Supplemental Paid Sick Leave law, many…

New Nuclear

Senate Committee holds Hearing on Advanced Reactors, With Amy Roma Testifying

By Amy Roma & Sachin Desai

March 30, 2021

On March 25, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a hearing entitled “The Latest Developments in the Nuclear Energy Sector with a Focus on Ways to Maintain and Expand the Use of Nuclear Energy in the United States and Abroad.” A recording of the hearing is available here. This full Committee hearing included testimonies from experts in nuclear, including blog contributor and Hogan Lovells Partner Amy Roma, whose testimony can…

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Growing convergence towards a hard law duty of care in the EU

By Christelle Coslin & Margaux Renard

March 29, 2021

Recent years have seen a general move towards increased accountability and responsibility obligations imposed on businesses to respect human rights and prevent adverse impacts throughout the value chain. Nearly ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (“UNGPS”), mandatory human rights due diligence initiatives are on the rise both at the Member States and EU levels. Within Member States France propelled itself to the forefront of BHR regulation…

All in a Day's Work: The Employer's Legal Guide

DFEH issues guidance addressing mandatory vaccines in California

By Tao Leung

March 26, 2021

As employers anticipate returning to work in light of increased availability of vaccines, some have considered requiring employees to get a COVID-19 vaccination to return to the workplace. On March 4, 2021, California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) updated its DFEH Employment Information on COVID-19 to address whether employers may mandate vaccines under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA). The FEHA prohibits discrimination against employees based on protected characteristics, including disability…

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Colorado employers – are you providing required notices to your employees of all job postings and promotional opportunities?

OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard placed on “hold”

Advanced Nuclear Included in Biden’s American Jobs Plan

American Rescue Plan Act’s COBRA health care premium subsidy

Pre-dispute employment arbitration agreements are enforceable in New Jersey, according to a recent ruling

New York issues guidance on paid vaccination leave law

California brings back, and expands, COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave

Senate Committee holds Hearing on Advanced Reactors, With Amy Roma Testifying

Growing convergence towards a hard law duty of care in the EU

DFEH issues guidance addressing mandatory vaccines in California

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