1. On Friday, December 17, several states appealed the Sixth Circuit’s decision to vacate the stay on OSHA’s emergency mandatory vaccine rule (the Rule) for large employers with over 100 employees to the United States Supreme Court. They are asking the Supreme Court to enjoin enforcement of the Rule. On Saturday, the U.S. Department of […]
As an employment attorney for more than 30 years, I have seen a lot of change. Changes in the legal system, changes in the law and changes in the types of claims that employees can assert against their employers (or even their joint employer). That being said, it is hard to imagine a more difficult
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For more than a decade, a war has been raging between companies and workers who want to utilize an independent contractor relationship on one hand, and labor unions and governments that seek to reclassify millions of such workers as employees on the other. On May 4, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rescinded a
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As the COVID-19 virus has shown, even just a few weeks’ time can create unpredictable developments. With the arrival of 2021, and the slow vaccine roll out, questions have arisen over when most Americans will be vaccinated. Coupled with the recent surge of cases in late 2020 and new “variant strains” of the virus that are much
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