Podcast: American Rescue Plan Delivers New Stimulus Funding - Diagnosing Health Care
Privacy Concerns When Contact Tracing in the Health Care Workplace - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast
Privacy and Data Protection Issues for Employees in the COVID-19 Environment
#WorkforceWednesday: CDC Broadens “Close Contact” Guidance, Pandemic’s Impact on Women and Caregivers, Twitter’s Cautionary Cybersecurity Tale - Employment Law This Week®
Rules of the Road: Return to Work in the Time of COVID-19
I’ll be watching you: The ins and outs of employee monitoring
#WorkforceWednesday: Mobile Tracking Technologies, Added PPP Flexibility, Return-to-Work Plans - Employment Law This Week®
Nota Bene Episode 80: South Korea’s Bellwether on the Pandemic Market Recovery with Paul Kim
This week, a lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for its use of a COVID-19 contact-tracing app for residents’ mobile phones. However, very few residents...more
The nation’s federal health authorities marked the next chapter of the pandemic yesterday by significantly loosening many COVID-19 recommendations – including dropping the “six-foot” social distancing rule – thereby...more
CDC shortens quarantine, isolation periods- On December 27, the CDC issued new guidance on isolation and quarantine as cases of the Omicron variant soared nationwide over Christmas weekend. The two categories relate to...more
As workplaces are reimagined, employers and operators of coworking spaces need to consider how to operate safely in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic. Coworking spaces have become an intriguing work alternative for remote...more
2021 Update: While some of us may have expected 2021 to have the coronavirus under control, things have been up and down throughout the past year. From the distribution of vaccines to the introduction of the Delta...more
In a recent Second Appeal decision, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) denied Scott County, Iowa's (the County) claims for Public Assistance (PA). From March 11-August 20, 2020, the County purchased contract...more
On October 25, 2021, President Biden issued a presidential proclamation titled Advancing the Safe Resumption of Global Travel During the COVID-19 Pandemic (the proclamation), and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...more
The Biden Administration just announced that starting November 8, 2021 there will be stricter vaccine and COVID testing requirements for all air travelers into the US. The new rule eliminates all the regional COVID travel...more
The Biden Administration recently provided details regarding its plans to lift COVID-related travel restrictions for all international travelers to the United States. Implementation of the changes depends on the manner of...more
At the Virginia Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Conference, we heard first-hand from Jay Withrow, Esq., the Director of Legal Support for the Virginia Department and Labor and Industry’s Virginia Occupational Health...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
The Biden Administration, via its Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (the “Task Force”), has now provided the guidance with which federal contractor and subcontractors must comply in connection with their contracts and...more
While not all the details are available, the Biden Administration is releasing more information about the lifting of the 14-day travel restrictions. Here is what is known so far: •The 14-day travel restrictions on...more
New Guidance Documents: - The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) recently issued the following updated guidance documents related to return to in-person instruction...more
The White House has announced that, effective early November, regional COVID-19 travel restrictions will be rescinded. The current restrictions will be replaced with a new requirement that all foreign nationals be fully...more
The White House announced on September 20, 2021, that beginning in “early November” 2021, the Biden administration would remove restrictions on international travelers who are seeking to fly to the United States, provided...more
The Biden-Harris administration plans to lift travel restrictions on visitors from most European countries, including the United Kingdom and Ireland, and other countries that have been in place since the start of the...more
The White House announced plans Monday to reopen international travel to the United States in early November, a move that will surely come as welcome news for many employers and businesses. Under the plan announced by...more
The White House announced that it is plans to ease travel restrictions on all international travelers coming into the United States beginning in early November 2021. The White House will rescind the current geographic...more
What are the cumulative costs of COVID-19 for corporations? Nobody is precisely sure. But there’s increasing pressure on HR departments to understand the vaccination status of their workforces....more
The Delta variant of COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on businesses nationwide. Clients are contacting us daily with urgent questions as to how to deal with Delta and its impact on operations. As we ride the Delta wave, we...more
The California Department of Public Health just issued a Public Health Order requiring all public and private school teachers and school staff serving students in kindergarten through 12th grade to either show proof of full...more
Earlier this month, the governor of Colorado signed into law the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), making Colorado the third state to enact a comprehensive data security law after California in 2018 and Virginia in March 2021. The...more
The sports industry was among the first to navigate the resumption of some sense of regular play amid the pandemic, but it was far from normal. That wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. ...more