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OSHA's Rule Mandating Vaccination Against COVID-19 Goes Into Effect Friday, November 5, 2021

Randi Klein Hyatt

11/04/2021

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has mandated, for the first time ever, a vaccination in the workplace. For any employer with 100 or more employees company-wide, all employees must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or subject to weekly testing. For any state that has its own work safety agency, they will have thirty (30) days to implement the federal OSHA standard or their own mandate that is at least as protective as...

Clifford Geiger

10/28/2021

COVID-19, Religious Discrimination

On October 25, 2021,the EEOC updated its guidance on What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws. The EEOC added six new Q&As addressing Title VII religious objections to COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Generally, job applicants and employees may request an exception, called a religious or reasonable accommodation, from an employer requirement that conflicts with their sincerely held...

Darrell VanDeusen

10/21/2021

COVID-19

Not a day goes by for me without inquiries from clients about dealing with vaccine mandates, employee exemptions, government executive orders, testing protocols, and discipline for those employees who fail to follow the rules. I feel a bit like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. Nearly all of these questions focus on the hypothetical employee who has refused to get vaccinated “just because” and the employer’s response to that...

Jordan Dunham

10/11/2021

Affordable Care Act, COVID-19, Employee Benefits

As employees continue to return to offices, employers around the United States are looking for assistance in how to require and/or incentivize its employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Some of these initiatives come as employers prepare to confront the executive orders mandating vaccines on some workforces. On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced his Path Out of the Pandemic: Covid-19 Action Plan that in part, set a requirement that all...

Randi Klein Hyatt

09/29/2021

Agency Activity, COVID-19, Reasonable Accommodations/Undue Burden, Telework, Uncategorized

Earlier this month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed its first lawsuit under the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) against a facility management services company, ISS Facility Services, Inc., due its failure to permit one of its employees to continue working remotely amidst COVID. The case is EEOC v. ISS Facility Servs., Inc., No. 1:21-CV-3708-SCJ-RDC (N.D. Ga. 2021). Ronisha Moncrief worked as a Health Safety and...

Vincent Jackson

09/27/2021

COVID-19, Government Contractors

On September 24, 2021, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force published guidelines for President Biden’s recently-announced COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors. Here are the highlights: “Covered contractor employees” of federal contractors must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no later than December 8, 2021. People are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after they have received the second dose in a two-dose series,...

Bernadette Hunton

09/10/2021

COVID-19, Workplace Safety

Yesterday evening, President Biden announced a new action plan to fight the spread of COVID-19 and battle back yet another surge sparked by the delta variant. The national strategy calls on both public and private sector employers to take steps get the unvaccinated vaccinated by mandating vaccines for employees and offering other protections for workers. As part of the plan, all employers with 100 or more employees will need to ensure that workers...

Darrell VanDeusen

08/23/2021

COVID-19, FMLA, Virginia Employment Law

And so it has begun. Unless you just arrived from another planet, you know that we’ve been in COVID world for about 18 months. The lawsuits involving employee behavior, and employer reactions to that behavior, during the pandemic are being filed and decided in state and federal courts. Here’s one where a physician assistant’s (PA) unprofessional behavior in the early months of COVID led to his termination. Unwilling or unable to accept...

Jordan Dunham

08/11/2021

COVID-19

As Kollman and Saucier’s Vincent Jackson previously blogged, in June 2021, a Texas federal court upheld a hospital’s policy requiring its workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Since that decision was rendered, an Indiana federal court issued its decision upholding Indiana University’s mandatory vaccination policy that applied equally to students, faculty and staff. The Seventh Circuit recently denied a motion for injunction regarding...

Vincent Jackson

06/18/2021

COVID-19

In one of the first rulings of its kind, a federal judge upheld a company policy requiring that employees at a Texas hospital be vaccinated against COVID-19. The lawsuit, brought by 117 employees against Houston Methodist Hospital, bore all the hallmarks of a frivolous case: dubious application of legal doctrines, conspiracy theories, and (of course) Nazi comparisons. It alleged claims for wrongful termination, violations of federal law governing...

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