Compliance Tip of the Day: Empowering Middle Managers to Drive Compliance Transformation
Compliance Tip of the Day – Role of Chatbots in Compliance
Beyond the Bylaws: The Medical Staff Show | The Role of Bylaws in Medical Staff Governance, Part II
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 60 - Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: Employee Retention Tax Credit
Compliance Tip Of the Day: Using AI to Transform Whistleblower Response
Because That’s What Heroes Do: Deep Space 9 – Episode 30: Deep Trek Themes from Tacking into the Wind
FCPA Compliance Report: Amanda Carty on a Due Diligence and Risk Management
FCPA Compliance Report: Kristy Grant-Hart on A 360° Review of the Future of Compliance
Great Women in Compliance: Creating Space to Speak Up: The Story Behind Psst.org
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 43: How Employers Can Navigate White Collar Crime with Erica Barnes & Christian Dysart of Maynard Nexsen
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 59 - Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: DOJ Focus
Creativity and Compliance: Bringing Joy to Compliance: A Conversation with Virginia MacSuibhne
Beyond the Bylaws: The Medical Staff Show - The Role of Bylaws in Medical Staff Governance, Part I
Compliance Tip of the Day: Embedded Compliance
Auditing Your Hotline and Case Management System
Compliance and AI: Ali Khan on Implementing AI Risk Management Systems
Compliance Tip of the Day: AI for Whistleblower Anonymity
Compliance Tip of the Day: Taming Complexity
Improving Your Code of Conduct
Envisioning a Compliant Workforce
Pre-employment drug testing can feel overwhelming for many employers. What are the rules? Do certain drugs matter more? What doesn’t matter at all? What can you let slide?...more
Recently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) officially published its long-awaited rule proposal to establish a workplace heat standard to address a leading cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S....more
Twenty-two states have OSHA-approved state plans that cover both private and state and local government workers. While state plans must be at least as effective as federal OSHA, some state plans have regulations unique to...more
In this episode of the Hiring to Firing Podcast, Partners Tracey Diamond and Evan Gibbs sit down with Carol Cookerly, founder of Cookerly PR, a national marketing, PR, and crisis management firm. Drawing parallels from the TV...more
This week, we turn our focus to the conclusion of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023. What does the end of the COVID-19 PHE mean for employers? Epstein Becker Green attorneys Brianna Richardson and...more
Schwabe’s recently published report, “State of Healthcare in the Pacific Northwest,” offers reason for optimism. It notes that over 40% of the healthcare workers in Oregon and Washington who responded to the firm’s survey...more
Over the past three years, employers have grappled with how best to respond to various workplace issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the protocols employers put in place relied heavily upon guidance issued by the...more
By January 31, 2023, general acute care hospitals, clinical labs and certain physician organizations and medical groups in California are required to enter into the Single Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) to participate in the...more
COVID-19 appears poised to remain with us on a long-term basis, and with every passing day, guidelines appear to become more lax. For example, the CDC now requires a person who tests positive to isolate for five days as...more
We are fast approaching winter, and the Iowa Department of Public Health will be regularly announcing flu rates and weather alerts will be blaring at us weekly. And like your car, you may need to winterize your employee...more
You get out of bed in the middle of the night with an upset stomach and think to yourself “wow, I must have eaten something bad yesterday.” If you have done this, you are not alone. The Centers for Disease Control and...more
On Friday, May 6, the Tennessee Bar Association held its first in-person Labor & Employment Law Forum since 2019. Among the presenters were John Bode of Miller & Martin PLLC and Paul Merritt of Fortress Consulting, LLC, who...more
In response to the spread of the COVID-19 omicron variant, Shanghai implemented a general lockdown in April 2022. This LawFlash provides multinational companies with operations in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China with...more
The White House has released a COVID-19 preparedness plan that assumes we will be living with the virus for the long term. The 96-page plan has four primary goals: (1) protect against and treat COVID-19, (2) prepare for...more
In Illinois, as universal masking is fading, the next question looms: what will the end of universal masking mean for staff and students with disabilities who are at high risk? Across the county, issues regarding universal...more
Over the summer, we reported on the passage of Public Act 102-0339, which aims to reduce and the use of time out, isolated time out, and physical restraint (referred to herein as “restrictive interventions”) in schools. ...more
In the spirit of the season, we are using our annual "12 days of the holidays" blog series to address new California laws and their impact on California employers. On this twelfth day of the holidays, my labor and employment...more
With travelers returning to hotel destinations across the world, threats of COVID-19 contamination continue to expose the hospitality industry to various legal risks. With more than 2,000 COVID-related cases currently on file...more
È stato recentemente pubblicato in Gazzetta Ufficiale – Serie Generale n. 252 del 21 ottobre 2021 – il testo del Decreto Legge 21 ottobre 2021, n. 146 recante «Misure urgenti in materia economica e fiscale, a tutela del...more
On December 1, 2021, sweeping changes to Alberta's current occupational health and safety legislation will come into force. The new laws rectify many of the previous challenges that arose from ambiguous and overly...more
The worst public health crisis in a century has brought with it some swiftly changing coronavirus health measures, and many by now are reacting with weary exasperation, asking: “Why can’t doctors get it straight? Why do they...more
In May of 2021, the CDC significantly relaxed the guidelines and guidance for individuals who have been fully vaccinated. However, given the increase in number of cases and spreading of the Delta variant, the CDC has revised...more
In response to the surge of delta variant cases across the country, federal workplace safety officials just issued updated guidance to help employers and workers identify current COVID-19 risks for unvaccinated or otherwise...more
Nevada has just joined the ranks of several other states that have recently enacted laws prohibiting discrimination in workplace and educational settings based on traits frequently associated with race such as hair texture...more
In our last Act Now Advisory, we discussed California’s mandate requiring verification of workers’ vaccination status, masking guideline compliance, and testing requirements for unvaccinated and incompletely vaccinated...more