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[Webinar] Contractor crunch time: Responding to OFCCP’s new initiatives on pay equity, compliance certification, audits, and more...

Join the Hogan Lovells Employment and Government Contracts teams on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 for a discussion on significant developments for federal supply and service contractors, including from the Department of Labor's...more

Virginia revokes COVID-19 workplace safety standard

Effective March 23, 2022, the Virginia occupational safety and health standard on COVID-19 (the Standard) has been revoked. The Standard established protocols that Virginia employers were required to follow to control,...more

SEC issues proposal to amend rules to incentivise whistleblowers

On February 10, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to Exchange Act Rules 21F-3 and 6, which govern the implementation of its whistleblower program. These amendments increase the SEC’s...more

Federal contractor $15 minimum wage now effective

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule implementing Executive Order 14026 (EO), which raises the minimum hourly wage from $10.95 to $15.00 for certain workers working on or in connection with covered federal contracts and...more

D.C. issues new mandatory COVID-19 leave poster

The District of Columbia has released an updated poster on COVID-19 leave available under the D.C. Family and Medical Leave Act (DCFMLA). Employers with 20 or more employees in the District should promptly post this poster....more

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

Federal vaccine mandates enjoined nationwide: Should employers pause mandatory vaccination efforts?

On December 7, 2021, a federal district court issued a nationwide preliminary injunction prohibiting the U.S. government from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal contractors while a legal challenge to the...more

NLRB general counsel issues guidance on bargaining obligations in relation to OSHA ETS

On November 10, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Office of the General Counsel (GC), issued a memorandum with its position on unionized employers’ bargaining obligations when implementing the Occupational Safety and...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

OSHA ETS finally issued: large employers must mandate vaccination or weekly testing by January 4

On November 4, 2021, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced its long-awaited Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that requires employers with 100 or more employees, among other things, to...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

Virginia employer checklist for compliance with new 2021 laws

Virginia employers should be aware of several new employment laws that have taken effect in the commonwealth in 2021. These laws create protections against employment discrimination based on disability and military status and...more

D.C. extends COVID-19 leave laws through November 5

As District of Columbia businesses and area schools continue to reopen, employers should keep in mind their continuing obligations under the District’s COVID-19 leave laws, which the mayor recently extended through November...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

D.C.’s impending noncompete ban may be on hold until 2022

D.C. employers should be aware that the District’s new law banning virtually all employee noncompete agreements and policies does not currently apply and likely will not become applicable this year....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

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