New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose term as mayor ends on January 1, 2022, has announced that the city’s Department of Health will issue a mandate requiring full vaccination of any employee of a private sector business....more
News outlets have run wild with coverage of President Biden’s July 9, 2021 Executive Order (the “EO”), encouraging the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) to work with the “rest of the Commission” to “curtail the...more
On March 12, 2021, OSHA established a 12-month long “National Emphasis Program,” effecting an immediate emphasis on the enforcement of safety standards associated with COVID-19. The “COVID-19 NEP” also creates “an added...more
4/9/2021
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The Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Antitrust Division has brought its third criminal antitrust case involving labor markets — this time against a healthcare staffing company and its former manager for allegedly agreeing not...more
4/8/2021
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