By: Dan Burke and Laura Caty
OSHA updated its workplace COVID guidance last week to align with CDC's recent recommendations for fully vaccinated individuals. This development presents a further wrinkle for businesses wrestling with whether to reinstate an across-the-board mask mandate in the workplace, regardless of vaccination status.
By: Laura Caty & Liam McMillin
Let’s talk about handbooks. Yeah, we know. You’re probably thinking, “The sun is shining, kids are out of school, and everyone is on vacation; why talk about handbooks? Heck, we haven’t even looked at ours in decades?”
But with school looming on the horizon, there is no better time to return to the ABCs ...
By: Laura Caty & Kiley Barnard
To foster a healthy workplace environment and protect from liability, employers must have a formal process for conducting a workplace investigation for any complaints presented by employees. Consider the following scenario:
Sarah’s boss has consistently asked her to get drinks after work and she always says no ...
In Mahanoy Area School District v. Levy, the Supreme Court ruled on June 23, 2021 that a public high school violated the First Amendment when it disciplined a high school student for Snapchat posting vulgar language and gestures criticizing the school and its cheerleading team after she didn’t make the varsity squad. Key here: the student’s ...
Written by: Laura D. Caty & Dan E. Burke
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on June 10th targeted towards protecting employees in the healthcare sector from COVID-19. Read OSHA's summary here.
The COVID-19 ETS applies to all settings where any employer provides healthcare ...
If only every employer could give a $1 million incentive for a vaccine like the Ohio Vax-A-Millions program...then I would probably be on vacation instead of writing this blog.
The EEOC issued guidance on Friday May 28th clarifying long standing questions about the COVID-19 vaccine after organizational leaders requested additional legal ...
Good news abounds for employers and employees alike! The CDC, as well as Ohio and Kentucky, have relaxed masking and social distancing requirements for vaccinated workers in most settings. Both Ohio and Kentucky have said that all emergency health orders related to Covid, with some exceptions, will be lifted in June. OSHA, for its part, has said ...
On May 5, 2021, the DOL effectively withdrew the Trump Administration’s independent contractor rule, continuing President Biden’s employee-friendly agenda in the Labor and Employment space. The much discussed “economic realities” test would have shifted the power balance towards employers by making it easier to classify workers ...
As with any new presidential administration there is always a period of out with the old and in with the new. Many of you may have noticed the flurry of news reports regarding changes or new hires made by the new administration. If you’re anything like me, at this point you are probably a bit annoyed with the constant buzzing of your phone or ...
Ohio’s Eleventh District Court of Appeals recently declared part of Ohio’s Public Employees Collective Bargaining Act that prohibited unions from encouraging members to picket at the homes and places of private employment of public employer representatives unconstitutional. In Portage County Educators Association for ...