Topic
COVID Testing
245 published works
Wage & Hour Developments
Employee Asserts Claims of Uncompensated COVID-19 Screening Practice
By Katelyn Sullivan, Jon Daryanani, Jill L. Ripke
On October 18, 2021, Plaintiff Ysa Santana Reynoso (Reynoso), a former employee of pork processor Hatfield Quality Meats, Inc. (Hatfield), filed a class action lawsuit before a state court in…
Searcy Law Blog
Is Rapid Really a Good Thing? — FDA-Approved Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Test Recalled
By Karen Terry
COVID Rapid Test {Problems Over 400,000 COVID-19 rapid test kits have been recalled by Australian manufacturer Ellume. The reason? Way too many false positive results. “At Ellume, we understand that…
HR Defense
Objections to COVID-Testing and Asking Vax Status Up Front: Best Practices
By Akerman Law
Employers are being inundated with employee requests for exemptions, not just from mandatory vaccination policies, but also from policies requiring regular COVID-19 testing. How do employers square their duty to…
Criminal
“A crisis of undertesting: how inadequate COVID-19 detection skews the data and costs lives”
The title of this post is the title of this new report authored by Erika Tyagi, Neal Marquez, and Joshua Manson of the UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project.…
Labor & Employment Report
Do Employers Have to Pay For COVID-19 Testing Time?
By Fiona W. Ong, Eric Hemmendinger
As many employers implement a COVID-19 vaccination-or-weekly-testing mandate (soon to be required of all employers with 100+ employees, as we discussed here), a recurring issue is whether the time that…
Benefits Law Advisor
At Home COVID-19 Testing and the Path out of the Pandemic
Testing for COVID-19 certainly has evolved over the past 18 months or so. As supply and allocation continue to face challenges, guidance on serological/antibody versus viral testing, testing in the…
Employment Law Lookout
OSHA to Issue New COVID Emergency Temporary Standard Mandating COVID-19 Vaccination, Testing, Paid Time Off
By James L. Curtis, Benjamin D. Briggs, Adam R. Young, Patrick D. Joyce, A. Scott Hecker, Ilana Morady, Daniel R. Birnbaum, and Craig B. Simonsen Seyfarth Synopsis: President Biden announced a six-pronged, “comprehensive national…
Healthcare Workplace Update
New Jersey Mandates Vaccines Or COVID-19 Testing For Covered Healthcare Settings
Governor Murphy issued Executive Order 252, requiring employers in covered healthcare and other high risk congregate settings, including hospitals, correctional facilities and certain long-term care facilities, to establish a policy…
California Workplace Law Blog
Vaccine Verification and Testing Requirements for Workers in Schools Across California
By Robert L. Murphy, Laura Soprana-Dec
A week after issuing the first in the nation order mandating all healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, on August 11, 2021, the state of California issued an order…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
Legality of Mandatory COVID-19 Testing
[caption id="attachment_9807" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo by Jakayla Toney on Unsplash[/caption] To enter Canada, all travellers over the age of 5, including those who are fully vaccinated, are required to provide…