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Is That Infrastructure? Biden Plans To Retrofit Not Just
Roads And Bridges. Astute readers of this newsletter
have almost assuredly heard the phrase that s infrastructure mentioned
by Biden administration officials as they press for inclusion of
things like broadband, child / elder care, and the electrical grid
in his Job s proposal. One of the more controversial proposals would allocate $10 Billion to
enforcement agencies to [p]rotect the health, safety, and
rights workers of color. This should not come as a surprise,
though, as President Biden has made clear from the outset that he
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US OSHA currently has several well-established regulations that
apply to aspects of workplace protection that also apply to certain
workplaces operating during the pandemic. For example, OSHA s
PPE and respiratory standards would apply particularly to work in
hospitals and those in direct contact with people or bodies known
to be infected by COVID-19.
See, e.g., 29 CFR
1910.132, 1910.133, 1910.134. OSHA s illness recordkeeping
standard applies to workplaces otherwise required to do that
recordkeeping (29 CFR 1904.2(a)), and all workplaces are required
to report to OSHA work-related cases that result in hospitalization
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President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
(ARP) into law on March 11, 2021. Among many other provisions, the
ARP includes a temporary 100 percent COBRA subsidy for individuals
whose qualifying event was an involuntary termination of employment
or reduction in hours. The COBRA subsidy goes into effect on April
1, 2021, and will apply to employers that sponsor both fully
insured and self-insured coverage for their employees.
This
Alert outlines the COBRA subsidy rules and
implementation steps for employers.
Eligibility
The subsidy is available to employees who lose (or have already
Seyfarth Synopsis:
Earlier this
month, New Mexico passed a statewide paid sick leave law, requiring
all private employers with one or more employees to provide
eligible employees with paid sick leave. The law becomes
effective July 1, 2022.
On April 7, 2021, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law the New Mexico Healthy
Workplaces Act (the Act ), House Bill 20,
1 which
requires covered employers to provide eligible employees with paid
sick leave and permits use of up to 64 hours of paid sick leave per
year. New Mexico is the sixteenth state to enact a statewide
paid sick leave or paid time off ( PTO ) mandate, joining
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The U.S. Department of Labor issued guidance on April 7 about
the new COBRA subsidy rules under the American Rescue Plan (ARP).
However, the DOL left some significant questions unanswered.
More guidance on the COBRA provisions in ARP are expected. But
until then, we address the most common questions below in an effort
to provide some clarity.
What is the COBRA subsidy?
COBRA requires employers to offer employees, their spouses, and
their dependent children the opportunity to continue coverage under
a group health plan for a limited period when that coverage would