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Quarles & Brady LLP

FAQs Relating to Quarles & Brady’s 10/12/2022 Webinar: COVID & the Flu: Legal Update and Fall Planning

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Q: Can I terminate an agreement allowing an employee to work remotely?...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Defending Against Title VII Religious Objections to COVID Vax

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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on religion and requires that employers provide reasonable accommodations for employees' sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances....more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Updated Guidance on Religious Accommodations to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

On March 1, 2022, the EEOC updated its guidance on religious accommodations to COVID-19 vaccine mandates. While the guidance states that job applicants and employees have a right to request a religious accommodation from an...more

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Fifth Circuit Reverses Denial of Preliminary Injunction in Vaccine Mandate Case

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While the issue of whether private employers can legally enforce vaccine mandates among their workforce continues to be challenged across the country, a split panel in the Fifth Circuit is the first appellate court to signal...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Employers’ Struggles with Religious & Disability Accommodations from COVID-related Policies

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The science, guidance, and regulations related to workplace safety policies for the COVID-19 pandemic are constantly changing (goodbye federal vaccine mandate!). As employers struggle to keep up, they are confronted with the...more

Smith Anderson

OSHA Issues its Vaccine Mandate

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") published a new Emergency Temporary Standard ("ETS") in the Federal Register today. This is the workplace vaccine mandate promised by President Biden on September...more

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OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard is here: Private Employers with at least 100 employees now subject to vaccine or testing...

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As President Biden previewed in a September speech, many employers with 100 or more employees will be required to mandate COVID-19 vaccines or regular testing and masking for employees. Key details of the Emergency Temporary...more

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EEOC Update - What you should know about COVID-19 vaccinations

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On October 13, 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued several updates to its Q&A relating to COVID-19 and vaccinations - What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and...more

McGuireWoods LLP

No Magic Words: EEOC Clarifies Guidance on Religious Accommodations to Vaccine Mandates

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On Oct. 25, 2021 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new guidance for resolving religious objections to COVID-19 workplace vaccination mandates. This guidance comes at a time when many employees are...more

Morgan Lewis

EEOC Issues Updated Guidance on Religious and Pregnancy Vaccine Accommodations

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The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently updated its COVID-19 guidance, detailing its view of employer obligations under Title VII when evaluating religious objections to COVID-19 vaccination mandates....more

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EEOC Issues Updated COVID-19 FAQs

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Yesterday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) added more FAQs to its COVID guidance to what is becoming a very long list that started months ago. The EEOC highlights the additional religious exemption guidance...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

The New Employee Status: Vaccinated or Unvaccinated

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With the highly transmissible Delta variant surging, and vaccination rates stagnating, employers are facing new pressures to reinstate mask mandates for everyone, regardless of vaccination status, and encourage COVID-19...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Court Refuses to Halt Employer’s Mandatory Vaccination Policy

In one of the first cases involving a request for an injunction against a private employer’s vaccine mandate, a federal court refused to put a stop to the employer’s mandatory vaccination policy....more

Maynard Nexsen

Prepare Now to Manage Employee Accommodation Requests Resulting from a Potential COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

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In the wake of the Biden administration’s announcements last week, including the release of its COVID-19 Action Plan, employers are scrambling to determine what federally-mandated COVID-19 vaccines and/or weekly COVID-19...more

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Federal vaccine mandates more questions than answers

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President Biden’s announcement of the “Path out of the Pandemic” should not have come as a complete surprise to employers given the various previous announcements including mandating vaccines for federal employees, the OSHA...more

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President Biden Signs Executive Order Requiring COVID-19 Vaccine for Federal Government Contract Workers

To ensure “that the parties that contract with the Federal Government provide adequate COVID-19 safeguards to their workers performing on or in connection with a Federal Government contract,” President Biden has issued yet...more

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An Employer’s 3-Step Guide to Responding to COVID-19 Vaccine Religious Objections

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As the Delta variant surges throughout the country, more and more employers are implementing mandatory vaccine policies, especially now that the Pfizer vaccine has received full FDA approval. Most employers know they may need...more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

Employers Can Require COVID-19 Vaccines

This article discusses whether employers can require COVID-19 vaccinations or tests or require that employees wear masks. I’m not a scientist or physician, so this article doesn’t discuss whether vaccinations or masks prevent...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Vaccine Mandates for Condominium and Cooperative Building Employees: Union vs. Non-Union

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Many condominium and cooperative boards in New York City have asked whether they can mandate the vaccination of their building employees. Implementation of a vaccine mandate may implicate, among other things, union concerns,...more

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Employee COVID Vaccination Status: You Asked. They Answered. Now What?

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As employers make plans to modify pandemic-related work-from-home arrangements and require employees to come into the workplace, many have wrestled with “the vaccination status question.” Should employers ask employees...more

Gould + Ratner LLP

Employees and Vaccinations: What Do Employers Need to Know and Consider?

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Infectious disease experts have a saying: Vaccines don’t save lives, vaccinations do. As vaccinations are now widely available, and with the Biden Administration’s goal of 70% of adults at least initially vaccinated by July 4...more

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EEOC Update on Workplace Practices Related to COVID-19 Vaccinations

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The EEOC recently updated its guidance related to the intersection of employment discrimination laws and COVID-19 vaccinations. In addition to further defining the scope of lawful vaccination incentives, the update clarifies...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

New Federal Guidance: Employers May Offer Incentives for Vaccination

An employer may offer an incentive to employees to voluntarily provide documentation or other confirmation that they received a vaccination on their own from a pharmacy, public health department, or other health care provider...more

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Workplace Law Lowdown | Employers Can Offer Employees Vaccine Incentives

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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued updated guidance explaining how employers can encourage employees to receive COVID-19 vaccinations without violating equal employment opportunity laws....more

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EEOC Updates Technical Guidance on COVID-19 with Focus on Vaccine Records and Incentives

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The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a long-awaited update to its technical assistance guidance on COVID-19 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, and other federal...more

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