What’s New in Employment Law?

So, on January 26, 2022, the federal OSHA folks will withdraw President Biden’s vaccination-or-test mandate for employers with 100 or more workers.  All that worry for nothing… California employers, don’t forget about the updated Cal/OSHA ETS, which became effective...

The EEOC announced last week that its data collection portal for 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 report is tentatively set to pen on April 12, 2022, with a deadline for employers to file EEO-1 reports by May 17, 2022.  Here’s a link to the EEOC's announcement. Keep in mind,...

Happy Monday! As you have probably read, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the OSHA ETS on January 7, 2022. In the meantime, OSHA issued revised FAQs regarding the ETS, which are available here: https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/ets2/faqs. (By the way, OSHA...

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide early next month whether to stay the enforcement of OSHA’s ETS, pending the Court’s substantive decision on the regulation’s constitutionality. The ETS implements President Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate for employers with 100 or...

Try not to get whiplash... The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld President Biden's COVID-19 vaccinate-or-test mandate for employers with 100 or more employees. This one came out of nowhere, folks, The Court's ruling lifted a November injunction by the Fifth...

On December 16, 2021, the Cal/OSHA Standard Board voted to readopt and update the COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”). The new ETS will take effect on January 14, 2022, and end 90 days later (although Governor Newsom’s executive order from December 16, 2021,...

As you know, the CDPH issued new mask guidance earlier this week. The order, which was effective on December 15, 2021, requires masks indoors at public transit facilities such as airports, healthcare settings, adult and senior care facilities, schools, correctional...

So.  It pays to read EVERY word in a statute.  Case in point:  AB 1033, which will become law on January 1, 2022.  Section 1.5 of the bill purports to add “designated person” to the list of individuals for whom employees may use leave under the California Family...