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A Changing Atmosphere for Navigating COVID-19 in the Workplace

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Starting on June 1, Florida employers are prohibited from discriminating against an individual based on vaccination status or refusal to take a COVID-19 test or wear a face mask. The stated goal of SB 252, which amends...more

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The Cal/OSHA Fantastic Voyage Continues – Come Along and Ride with the 10 Biggest Changes in the Permanent COVID-19 Regulation

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As we near the end of the Cal/OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), Cal/OSHA has promised a new COVID-19 workplace regulation in its place. On December 15, the agency’s Standards Board will be voting to approve a...more

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Broad Street Brief: Indoor Mask Mandate Ends in Philadelphia

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CITY HALL- Indoor Mask Mandate Ends in Philadelphia Yesterday, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced that the indoor mask mandate ended. Two weeks ago, the city established benchmarks that would determine...more

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California Unmasks - California Department of Public Health Revises Guidance for Use of Face Masks in Indoor Settings

On February 28, 2022, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued new guidance, further loosening the rules for wearing COVID-19–related masks in the state. Effective March 1, 2022, unvaccinated individuals are...more

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Los Angeles County and City COVID-19 Masking Orders Move Closer to California Department of Public Health Rules

On February 23, 2022, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) issued an order, effective February 25, 2022, that slightly loosened the rules for wearing COVID-19 masks in the county. One day after the...more

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California Governor Newsom Aligns Cal/OSHA Face Covering Regulations With CDPH Guidance

On February 28, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that updates the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s (Cal/OSHA) COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) to align with...more

Laughlin, Falbo, Levy & Moresi LLP

COVID-19 in the Workplace: Current Trends and Legislation

The COVID-19 pandemic remains a significant challenge in California. As of December 2021, California experienced the fastest increase in COVID-19 cases during the entire pandemic with 18.3 new cases per 100,000 people per...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

California Lifting Indoor Mask Mandate on February 15

On February 7, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state’s indoor mask mandate would expire on February 15, 2022, for vaccinated people. New face covering guidance from the California Department of...more

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Oregon Health Authority Adopts COVID-19 Vaccination and Masking Rules in Healthcare and K-12 Education

On January 31, 2022, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) published permanent rules relating to COVID-19 vaccination and masking requirements in healthcare settings, just a few days after issuing similar rules for K-12 schools....more

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Two Allegheny County School Districts Must Universally Mask Despite Mixed Messages From the Federal District Courts

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Last week, two federal judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania came to seemingly opposite conclusions regarding universal masking requirements in Allegheny County schools. In...more

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New York Appellate Court Stays Mask Mandate Injunction

On January 25, 2022, the New York Appellate Division, Second Department granted a stay of a Nassau County trial court’s injunction of the enforcement of the state’s mask mandate, which went into effect on December 13, 2021....more

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California Department of Public Health Issues Updated COVID-19 Quarantine Guidance

On December 30, 2021, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued its updated “Guidance for Local Health Jurisdictions on Isolation and Quarantine of the General Public.” With the updated guidance, the CDPH’s...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

California Reinstates Indoor Mask Requirement 

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Citing the Omicron variant as a concern, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced that it is requiring masks to be worn in all indoor public settings, irrespective of vaccine status, for the next four weeks...more

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California Implements Statewide Mask Requirements for All Indoor Public Settings

On December 13, 2021, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued a revised guidance on face coverings titled Guidance for the Use of Face Covering. Although styled as a guidance, the document states that the...more

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs Bills Regarding Vaccine Mandates

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called for a special session of the Florida Legislature to discuss the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The legislature convened Nov. 15-17, 2021, and passed four bills that address...more

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Commonwealth Court Voids Health Department’s School Masking Order, But Appeal Keeps Mandate in Place

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On November 10, 2021, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court struck down the Acting Secretary of the Department of Health’s Order Directing Face Coverings in School Entities (“Masking Order”) in Corman, et al. v. Acting...more

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Florida Special Session to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and State OSH Plan

On November 15, 2021, the Florida Legislature will convene a five-day special session under the proclamation issued on October 29, 2021, by Governor Ron DeSantis for the “Keep Florida Free” joint legislative agenda. With...more

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Ohio Department of Health Issues New COVID-19 Quarantine Guidance for Schools

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On Monday, October 25, the Ohio Department of Health ("ODH”) held a press conference to update COVID-19 school quarantine guidance that aims to keep asymptomatic children at school. This update comes after 10 schools in...more

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Federal Court Rejects Exemption Request In One Of PA’s First Mask Mandate Cases

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In one of the first cases in Pennsylvania to address the great student masking debate, a federal court has rejected several arguments made by parents seeking to exempt their children from a universal mask requirement imposed...more

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Federal court strikes down religious challenge to mask requirement

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On August 23, 2021, the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Ohio, ruled that a Michigan mask requirement does not violate an individual’s religious freedom. In October 2020, the...more

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What Do the New Mask and Vaccine Mandates Mean for Washington Employers?

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Governor Inslee and Washington’s Department of Health have been busy the past two weeks modifying existing mask rules and enacting new vaccine requirements for certain classes of healthcare workers. There has been enough...more

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Boston Mandates Face Coverings Indoors Effective August 27, 2021

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The City of Boston has announced that, in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it will require individuals to wear face coverings “whenever they are indoors on the premises of a business, club, place of assembly or...more

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The Impact of Governor DeSantis’s Mask Order on Florida Private Schools: To Mask or Not to Mask?

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In response to several Florida school boards considering mask mandates in advance of school openings, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just signed an executive order threatening to withhold state funds from any school boards...more

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Gathering and Face Mask Order Lifted, But MIOSHA Workplace Rules Remain In Place

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On June 17, 2021, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services issued a Recission of Emergency Orders. Finding that the COVID-19 positivity rates, case rates, hospitalization and death numbers have decreased, along...more

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California’s New Normal: Relaxed COVID-19 Restrictions

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Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the entire state of California is going to relax many of the COVID-19 restrictions starting on June 15, 2021.  There has been a great deal of uncertainty about what that actually means...more

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