On August 13, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued updated guidance on mitigating and preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. OSHA’s latest guidance is...more
8/19/2021
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On April 20, 2021, OSHA issued new guidance on when employers must report instances in which an employee suffers an adverse reaction to a COVID-19 vaccination. According to the guidance, employers who require their employees...more
4/23/2021
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently revised federal guidance on using N95 respirators to take into account their increased availability. The tight-fitting respirators filter out 95% of airborne...more
OSHA released its latest guidance on when employers must notify it of workers being hospitalized or dying because of COVID-19. The new guidelines provide the following changes for reporting purposes...more
On May 19, 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued an “updated interim guidance” memorandum to Compliance Safety and Health Officers (“CSHOs”) for enforcing the requirements under the...more
Benesch Law’s Labor and Employment group recently wrote on general labor and employment related concerns relative to COVID-19 in an article published on March 6, 2020. In just the last six days, thousands of additional cases...more
3/13/2020
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Are these the “end times”? No, but the degree of threat that Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses to the world’s population keeps being debated in the print, broadcast, cable, and social media. Although the disease...more
3/9/2020
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