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Supreme Court blocks OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate; allows enforcement of CMS healthcare mandate

On January 13, the United States Supreme Court reinstituted a stay on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Emergency Temporary Standard (OSHA ETS), which mandates that employers with 100 or more employees require...more

OSHA “vaccination-or-test” ETS stay lifted – how should covered employers respond?

On December 17, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit lifted a stay on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's "vaccination-or-test" Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), allowing the ETS to take...more

D.C. requires paid COVID-19 vaccination leave, extends DCFMLA leave for COVID-19-related reasons

On November 18, 2021, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser signed emergency legislation that requires private employers in D.C. to provide eligible employees with paid time off for their own and their children’s COVID-19...more

Employers Face Whipsaw from Shifting Stays on OSHA Vaccine Rule

The Fifth Circuit’s decision temporarily suspending OSHA’s “vaccine-or-test” mandate is the first of what could be more stay decisions to come, say Hogan Lovells’ Sean Marotta, George Ingham, and Amy Kett. They explain how...more

Navigating OSHA ETS Uncertainty – What Happens Next

A federal court of appeals in Louisiana has temporarily stayed the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate for larger employers. We address what to expect next from the...more

Task Force provides some flexibility for federal contractors regarding vaccine mandate requirements

On November 1, 2021, the Biden Administration issued several new frequently asked questions (FAQs) for federal contractors subject to the President’s executive order mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for covered contractor...more

Task Force announces details of federal contractor vaccine mandate

The Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (Task Force) has issued its guidance (Guidance) regarding the COVID-19 safety protocols that federal contractors must implement under President Biden’s recent Executive Order 14042. The...more

New COVID-19 Executive Order Expands Requirements for U.S. Government Contractors

Late last week, in the latest step to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, President Joseph R. Biden announced new Federal contractor employee vaccination requirements that are set to go into effect as of 15 October. The...more

OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard would require many employers to mandate vaccine or weekly testing

On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced several new initiatives aimed at increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates in U.S. private sector workplaces, including directing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration...more

OSHA updates workplace COVID-19 guidance in light of delta variant and latest CDC recommendations

Following the CDC’s recent changes to its COVID-19 guidance, OSHA updated its COVID-19 guidance for non-health care settings to reflect more restrictive recommendations for employers in light of the increased transmissibility...more

White House announces COVID-19 safety measures for onsite federal contractors

On 29 July 2021, the Biden Administration announced a wave of White House programs to boost vaccination rates in the United States, including programs aimed directly at federal contractors. These initiatives, summarized in a...more

CDC flip-flops on mask guidance for fully vaccinated individuals; what should U.S. employers do?

Citing concerns about potential spread of the COVID-19 “Delta variant” and the fact that even fully vaccinated individuals infected with the Delta variant can spread COVID-19 to others, on July 27, 2021, the Centers for...more

OSHA issues updated COVID-19 guidance for non-healthcare settings

On June 10, 2021, the same day that it released its long-anticipated COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) for healthcare settings (which we discuss here), the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)...more

OSHA issues COVID-19 emergency temporary standard for healthcare settings

On June 10, 2021, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released the first nationwide emergency workplace safety rule per President Joe Biden’s January executive order directing the agency to pursue an...more

EEOC releases guidance on permissible vaccine incentives and other COVID-19 vaccine issues

On May 28, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its “What you should know about COVID-19” Frequently Asked Questions (the FAQs), answering questions many employers have had regarding COVID-19...more

How should employers respond to new CDC guidance stating that fully vaccinated individuals can resume activities without masks or...

On May 13, 2021, the CDC updated its guidance for fully vaccinated individuals (Vaccination Guidance), stating that fully vaccinated people (fully vaccinated means two weeks after receiving a second dose of the Moderna or...more

OSHA issues guidance on when employers should record adverse vaccine reactions

On April 20, 2021, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) updated its FAQs with guidance stating that employers who require their employees to get vaccinated as a condition of employment may need to...more

OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard placed on “hold”

On April 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh placed a “hold” on the implementation of a potential U.S. Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), which would set...more

OSHA issues National Emphasis Program and Enforcement Response Plan targeting certain industries

As employers are revising their return to work protocols in light of increased vaccination efforts and the prospect of increased on-site work, the federal government has been busy implementing additional COVID-19 safety...more

OSHA issues National Emphasis Program and Enforcement Response Plan, targeting certain industries for inspections

As employers are revising their return to work protocols in light of increased vaccination efforts and the prospect of increased on-site work, the federal government has been busy implementing additional COVID-19 safety...more

Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons - 2021

Companies in the life sciences and health care industry, like most companies, navigated unparalleled challenges in 2020. But unlike other industries, they had to do so while simultaneously facing the biggest challenge of all...more

Top 10 things biotech employers need to know about COVID-19 vaccines and returning to the office

On February 2, Hogan Lovells partners Melissa Bianchi, David Horowitz, and George Ingham presented a webinar to the Biotechnical Innovation Organization (BIO) on “What Biotech Employers Need to Know about COVID Vaccines and...more

FFCRA COVID-19 leave is voluntary for Q1 2021

Employers subject to the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act (FFCRA or the Act) should be aware that they are no longer required to provide paid leave to employees for the COVID-19 related reasons specified in the Act. In...more

COVID-19 Report for Life Sciences and Health Care Companies (UPDATED)

In Tuesday's Report: An overview of EU and German financing measures for companies responding to COVID-19; U.S. passes relief legislation affecting surprise billing; U.K. traveler bans; an analysis of key considerations in...more

Can employers adopt mandatory COVID-19 vaccination programs? Should they? Key considerations in light of the EEOC’s COVID-19...

On December 16, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its COVID-19 guidance to address COVID-19 vaccines in the workplace. The EEOC’s guidance implies that a mandatory workplace vaccination program...more

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