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Posted on Nov 8, 2021 on Covid-19, Featured, Legal Updates, Legislative Updates by Robert G. Brody and Wendy C. Weng
November 8, 2021 Last Friday, we sent out an alert that the Biden Administration’s Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) on the vaccine mandate was issued, and large employers would have until Jan 4, 2022, to fully …
Posted on Nov 5, 2021 on Covid-19, Featured, Legal Updates, OSHA by Robert G. Brody and Wendy C. Weng
November 5, 2021 Two months ago, President Biden announced he would task OSHA (the federal health and safety agency) to develop a new emergency temporary standard (“ETS”), to mandate employers with 100 or more employees …
Posted on Oct 28, 2021 on Uncategorized by Robert G. Brody and Mark J. Taglia
October 19, 2021 Last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC”) updated its informal guidance on COVID-19 vaccination policies and employer sponsored vaccination incentive programs. What follows is a brief summary. Employer Sponsored Incentive …
Posted on Oct 28, 2021 on Uncategorized by Robert G. Brody and Mark J. Taglia
October 1, 2021 Last week, the National Labor Relations Board’s (the “NLRB”) General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, issued a memorandum addressing the status of college athletes under the National Labor Relations Act (the “Act”) – Statutory Rights …
Posted on Oct 28, 2021 on Uncategorized by Bruce E. Buchanan
October, 2021 At the last hour on August 31, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced an extension of four months until December 31, 2021, of the …
Posted on Oct 28, 2021 on Uncategorized by Robert G. Brody and Mark J. Taglia
October 13, 2021 The first lawsuit under Connecticut’s new COVID rehire law has been filed. P.A. 21-189 requires certain Connecticut employers who let employees go due to COVID-19 to rehire those impacted employees in order …
Posted on Oct 28, 2021 on Uncategorized by Robert G. Brody and Mark J. Taglia
October 13, 2021 Pulling no punches Starbucks temporarily closed two Buffalo stores at the center of the unionizing drive it now faces. While many pro-union onlookers see these store closures as an effort to derail …
Posted on Oct 28, 2021 on Legal Updates by Robert G. Brody and Mark J. Taglia
October 19, 2021 Hourly employees at a Pennsylvania Cargill meatpacking facility claim they are entitled to extra pay for the time they spent being checked for COVID-19 symptoms before the start of each shift and …
Posted on Sep 29, 2021 on Discrimination and Harassment, Immigration Related Issues, Legal Updates by Bruce E. Buchanan
The Civil Rights Division’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) of the Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached a settlement with Ascension Health Alliance (Ascension), a health care organization with more than 2,600 sites, including …
Posted on Sep 29, 2021 on Featured, NLRB, Union Issues by Robert G. Brody and Mark J. Taglia
September 24, 2021 Buffalo, New York is proving to be the next flashpoint of union activity and Starbucks Corp. (“Starbucks”) finds itself smack in the middle of it. In the past month, a union at …