COVID Update: New Masking Guidelines, Vaccine Mandates, and Long COVID Concerns
The COVID pandemic hasn’t disappeared, but thankfully, it has dissipated (for now). Will there be another surge? Maybe. Will it ever completely go away? Probably not. While laxing some restrictions is expected, now is not the time for businesses to completely dismiss all precautionary measures or forget the lessons learned over the past two years. […]
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Healthcare Employer Vaccine Mandate: What Employers Need to Know
Last year, the Biden administration announced an ambitious, two-part plan to boost the vaccination of American workers against COVID-19—the Large Employer and Healthcare Employer Vaccine mandates. The first part of the mandate, issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), applied to companies with over 100 employees. This included an estimated 84 million workers […]
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Employer Vaccine Mandate: FAQs and What Businesses Should Do to Prepare (UPDATED)
**UPDATE 1/13/2022** After hearing arguments last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay on OSHA’s COVID-19 vaccination emergency temporary standard in their decision published today. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas issued an opinion occurring in the decision while Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissented. “Although Congress has indisputably […]
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What Businesses Need to Know About the New Employer Vaccine Mandate
As the COVID pandemic extends deeper into its second year, a national vaccine mandate has become a hot topic. While that kind of sweeping legislation will likely never come to pass, the Biden administration did make two significant moves last week to inch the nation closer. Americans who have received at least one dose of […]
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