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On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a six-pronged plan to combat COVID-19 and to save more lives, while keeping schools open...

Despite a federal court ruling in April 2022 striking down federal mask mandates, major cities in the United States are keeping them in place amid a new wave of COVID-19 cases...

On September 20, 2022, New York City ("NYC") Mayor Eric Adams announced that the City's COVID-19 vaccine requirement for private sector employees will terminate on November 1, 2022.

On Monday, December 6, 2021, New York City's outgoing mayor, Bill de Blasio, announced a "first-in-the-nation" COVID-19 vaccine mandate

Seyfarth Synopsis: Yesterday, Governor Hochul announced that she will lift the mask-or-vaccinate mandate for nearly all public places of business on February 10, 2022.

The National Labor Relations Board (the "Board") issued a decision on July 21, 2020, which will aid employers in their ability to discipline or discharge an employee who engaged in abusive or...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently announced in a memorandum it will proceed with a highly focused, short-term initiative directed at general medical...

On January 21, 2021, President Biden ordered the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to consider whether emergency temporary standards on COVID-19 were necessary and, if so

On September 30, 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding an employer's obligation to report to OSHA cases of work-related COVID-19.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccination or testing rule that previously applied to large employers.

Given the huge uptick in telemedicine as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued guidance (Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2020-8)

The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued an order Wednesday, denying the U.S. Government's attempt to stay an injunction issued by the Western District of Louisiana court

As the Delta variant spreads and positive cases continue to rise, employers are yet again questioning their current COVID policies. Understandably, employers are concerned about the safety of their workforces

Janie Schulman spoke to the Daily Journal about the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) first set of guidelines on how employers should deal with coronavirus vaccination

In the face of rising numbers of COVID-19 cases, on December 10, 2020, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam issued Executive Order (EO) 72...

As described in our prior post, Notice 2020-4 provides relief from the rule in Treasury Regulation Section 1.401(a)-21(d)(6) that requires the signature of an individual making an election to be...

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On Thursday, April 2, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to lease out space for domestic oil companies to store oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).