AF COVID-19 Podcast: Safety Requirements on Essential Construction Projects
Context is Crucial in Examining BLM’s Proposed Rule for Fracking On Federal Land
Webinar: Investigating and Resolving Sexual Assaults on Campus
Marijuana in the Workplace
5 Risks of Telecommuting (And How Employers Should Handle Them)
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Court Schedules Arguments on FMCSA's New Hours of Service Rule on March 15, 2013
Lessons from Amusement Park Safety Concerns: An Integrated Approach to Business Regulation
On February 22, 2022, the Ninth Circuit ruled a COVID-19 wrongful death suit brought against a nursing home is not preempted by a federal health emergency law. The court affirmed a district court’s remand order which stated...more
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, most employers had never heard of the Illinois Healthcare Right of Conscience Act (the Act), let alone debated its applicability to their employees. However, as COVID-19 has changed the...more
Why It Matters - This decision casts doubt on the ability of nursing homes to rely on the PREP Act to shield them from liability against state-law claims or, at the very least, to remove such claims to federal court....more
Yesterday, the CDC issued revised guidance ("Guidance") detailing personal protective equipment (PPE) standards, including donning and doffing PPE, for all healthcare workers entering the room of a patient hospitalized with...more
News that a U.S. based health-care worker in Dallas has contracted Ebola while caring for a patient with the disease has raised questions about the protections that health care facilities and other employers must provide for...more
A look at a recent speech given by OSHA's Assistant Secretary, David Michaels, Ph.D., provides employers with insight into what agency touts as successes over the past several years and its vision for the year ahead. ...more
The DOJ has concluded that two medical schools had no lawful basis for excluding applicants who had active cases of Hepatitis B because they could not show that these individuals posed a direct threat to the health and safety...more