Executive Order 12866 requires federal agencies to publish an agenda of regulations they plan to propose, promulgate, or review in the coming one-year period. The Department of Labor’s regulatory agenda showed ambitious goals for its agencies in 2022, as does
The Supreme Court has granted a temporary stay of the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), otherwise known as the OSHA vaccine mandate. The Court ruled that OSHA had exceeded the authority delegated to it by Congress under the Occupational Safety
HuntonAK labor and employment partner Amber Rogers was recently named to the Dallas Business Journal’s 2022 Leaders in Diversity awards.
On December 27, 2021, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their isolation and quarantine recommendations for the general public, including more limited time periods for quarantine and isolation periods. On December 30, 2021, the California Department of
The Massachusetts Personnel Records Law, M.G.L. chapter 149, § 52C gives employees the right to submit written rebuttals to any negative information contained in a personnel file if the employee truly disagrees with the content of the information. The written
On December 16, 2021, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (“Cal/OSHA”) adopted revisions to the current COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards (“ETS”). The Cal/OSHA ETS were first approved on November 30, 2020, adopted again with modifications on June
HuntonAK Labor and Employment partner Julia Trankiem has been selected as part of the Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Thriving in Their 40s” 2021 award.
On December 13, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) issued its long-awaited decision determining that the Massachusetts Independent Contractor Statute, G.L. c. 149, § 148B (“Independent Contractor Statute”), which establishes the three-pronged “ABC” test used to classify workers as
HuntonAK labor and employment partner Amber Rogers was recently listed as an “On the Rise” honoree by ALM Media and Texas Lawyer’s 2021 Texas Legal Excellence Awards.
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to take a closer look at the enforceability of arbitration agreements that bar representative claims brought under PAGA, a California law that allows individual employees to police labor code violations.