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As vaccines are rolled out nationwide and are available to any adult who wants one, we appear on the cusp of a return to some level of normalcy. With that return to normalcy will come an increased focus on non-pandemic-related labor and employment issues. Between the pandemic and the new administration, changes in priority and enforcement are inevitable. While not intended to be a deep dive into these issues, this list of hot topics is intended to put these issues on your radar.
1) Increased OSHA investigations and enforcement - As noted in Mark Heath s article in
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Back in February, Jackson Walker summarized several of President Biden’s executive orders and memoranda that addressed areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Since taking the Oath of Office, Biden has signed over 40 executive orders (one of the tools most readily available to any president), a number of which touch upon DEI. Selected Orders are summarized below as an update to Jackson Walker’s previous article. President Biden’s actions including his appointment of Cabinet officials who have been statistically more racially and gender diverse than appointees in recent administrations reflect his stated mission to eliminate discrimination and reflect the diversity of the American people. Employers should keep these Orders in mind as they review, update, or revamp their DEI policies and trainings to ensure compliance. Jackson Walker’s Diversity & Inclusion Counseling practice group can assist with DEI polic
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The never-ending battle against leftist social media autocracies Twitter and Facebook, principal among them continues, as conservatives; the prime targets of the mercurial wrath of Dorsey-Zuckerberg Inc., grapple with how best to put an end to their suppression and outright censorship of conservative content not to mention their unbridled power.
A headline-making event last week only served to throw additional fuel on the fire.
As my RedState colleague Nick Arama reported last week, Republican lawmakers ratcheted up their call for the federal government to step in and break up Facebook after the Facebook Oversight Board upheld the social media giant’s indefinite ban on Donald Trump, despite also finding that an indefinite ban would violate Facebook’s own rules.
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says he is concerned about the volume of executive orders signed by President Joe Biden during his first 100 days in office.
During his first 100 days as president, Biden issued 42 executive orders totaling 163 pages. For comparison, Donald Trump issued 33 orders totaling 103 pages in the same timeframe. Barack Obama issued 19 totaling 68 pages, George W. Bush issued 12 totaling 27 pages and Bill Clinton issued 13 totaling 25 pages.
“In his inaugural address, President Biden declared that ‘history, faith, and reason show the way, the way of unity’ and that ‘without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,’” Morrisey says in his analysis of Biden’s presidency so far. “However, in the first 100 days of his administration, President Biden issued an unprecedented flurry of executive orders. …
The Biden administration on Monday reversed a Trump-era decision to allow health care providers to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services decided last June to reverse an Obama-era regulation interpreting the ban on sex discrimination under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act to apply to cases of transgender discrimination. In addition to undoing protections for transgender people, that rule change also rolled back protections based on sex stereotyping, women who have had abortions, and those who speak English as a second language.
But as of May 10 and just weeks after President Joe Biden declared to transgender Americans in his first address to a joint session of Congress that your president has your back the old rules prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQs are back.