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The Great Resignation of 2021: The Stay Interview – An Employee Retention Tool

George Morrison / December 30, 2021 / Employers

Employers continue to grapple with the avalanche of legal and operational issues that arose in 2021. A global pandemic proved to be only the beginning, as major supply chain disruptions, emergency closures, telework and the most recently revived OSHA vaccine mandates (along with now facing the difficult decision to terminate productive employees who do not […]

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Five Things Employers Must Know About Their Workplaces, the Raging Covid-19 Pandemic and OSHA’s Emergency Rule Status

Jim Anelli / December 20, 2021 / COVID-19, Employers, OSHA, Return to Work

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

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OSHA ETS Heads to Sixth Circuit

George Morrison / November 23, 2021 / COVID-19, Employers, OSHA

On November 16, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was selected during the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation’s lottery to hear the multiple consolidated challenges to the recent COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA is permitted to issue an ETS if the

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Proper Planning in the Face of a Strike or Walkout

John Baker / November 12, 2021 / Employers

As a young child, I never really knew what my father did for a living. At the dinner table, I constantly heard about “strike” this and “strike” that. I thought he was a baseball umpire or a newspaper editor. Alas, I learned that his blood pressure was unnervingly high because he was constantly dealing with

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New Requirements for Most Employers for the New Year

David Edwards / November 9, 2021 / COVID-19, Employers, OSHA

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) regulations on November 4, 2021, that will affect most employers in the United States. In brief, by December 5, 2021, all unvaccinated employees of businesses with 100 or more employees (the calculation is firm/corporate level, NOT per location) must wear masks indoors (including

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