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A COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Toolkit For Employers of Essential Workers
USA - January 22 2021 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) issued a new guidance document yesterday aimed at employers of essential workers—a COVID-19…
Reckoning With Race Discrimination In Federal Workplaces
USA - January 21 2021 On January 20, 2021, in one of his first acts as the 46th President of the United States, President Biden revoked an Executive Order (EO) barring…
Employer Decisions—There’s a New Final Rule In Town Governing Independent Contractor/Employee Classification
USA - January 6 2021 Independent contractor or employee? That has long been the question under various federal and state laws. Why such a buzz about this issue? Well…
How Will Your Business Handle Accommodation Requests To Your COVID-19 Vaccine Program?
USA - December 16 2020 As the first trucks with the COVID-19 vaccine roll out of the plant, we thought it best to ensure employers were thinking about accommodation…
Supervisor: “Being Gay Is A Mental Disorder.” Such Comments Do Not Bode Well For An Employer’s Motion for Summary Judgment
USA - October 28 2020 Since June, federal law protects employees from discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This means that an…
Employers May Need To Revise Their FFCRA Policies
USA - September 14 2020 Responding to an August 3 Order invalidating certain regulations from a case filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York…
Ministerial Exemption Does Not Bar Hostile Work Environment Claim For Gay Church Employee
USA - September 5 2020 Can an employee sue his church employer after his supervisor, a priest, created a hostile work environment claim because of the employee’s sexual…
Just When You Think You Have A Handle On COVID-19 Quarantine Protocol…A Symptoms-Based Approach Emerges As CDC Guidance
USA - August 20 2020 Emergency paid sick leave and expanded family Medical Leave policy drafted and distributed so that employees know about their rights to leave under…
Making Employees Sign a COVID-19 Waiver is a BAD Idea
USA - August 4 2020 What we know about COVID-19 has evolved so much over the past five months, forcing companies to be nimbler than ever to protect themselves from…
The Manager Is “Gonna Make The [N-words] Work Like Mexicans” But It’s OK - “We All Grew Up In The ‘Hood”
USA - July 3 2020 Here in good ol’ NYC, a new case was filed of racial harassment of an African American employee alleging (take a guess … you can do it) … use of the…
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