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Dive Brief: A federal judge in California has dismissed the claims of a construction workers wife who said she contracted COVID-19 after her husband was exposed to the novel coronavirus at work. Corby Kuciemba filed a lawsuit against her husbands employer, Victory Woodworks, alleging that Victory knew that another employee had tested positive for COVID-19 but instead of requiring him or her to quarantine, assigned the employee to work with her husband on a San Francisco jobsite. Kuciemba soug...

On March 22, 2021, former two-term Boston Mayor Marty Walsh was confirmed as U.S. Secretary of Labor in a 68-29 Senate vote. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Chamber) supported Walsh’s...

Tuesday, May 11, 2021 During the past 14 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have experienced an unprecedented flurry of new laws, regulations and guidance, frequently conflicting with one another and unclear. Although health concerns arising from the pandemic are finally starting to subside with the growing distribution of vaccinations, employers will still face challenges and uncertainty as the applicable laws and guidance are peeled back in the “new normal.” Many questions stil...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Recent news regarding the COVID-19 pandemic brings long-awaited optimism as signs of improvement begin to show. According to recent statistics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40.7% of the Arizona population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with 28.9% being fully vaccinated. The number of confirmed cases and deaths related to COVID-19 continues to decline as well. As conditions seem to i...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The webinar kicked off by introducing the new leadership team at the Department of Labor, including Secretary Marty Walsh, Deputy Secretary Julie Su, and others. Tune in to find out who the Departments shadow secretary might be (no spoilers)! It then proceeded to a comprehensive account of the COVID-19 vaccine roll out under the Biden Administration, including its impressive success in achiev...

Recent OSHA Update Targets Restaurant Industry Friday, May 7, 2021 Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recently updated its COVID-19 response plan. Last year, OSHA focused much of its COVID-19 related attention on healthcare, elderly care, and prisons. This new Updated Interim Enforcement Response Plan for COVID-19 and National Emphasis Program — Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) guidance shifts its focus to other industries where OSHA feels there could be...

Kyllan Kershaw addressed a number of labor, employment and immigration related actions taken by the Biden Administration since the beginning of its term. The webinar kicked off by introducing the new leadership team at the Department of Labor, including Secretary Marty Walsh, Deputy Secretary Julie Su, and others. Tune in to find out who the Department’s shadow secretary might be (no spoilers)! It then proceeded to a comprehensive account of the COVID-19 vaccine roll out under the Biden Admin...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On March 12, 2021, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) took two major steps in the COVID-19 battle: it enacted a COVID-19 National Emphasis Program (NEP) and an Updated Interim Enforcement Response Plan for Coronavirus 2019 (ERP). OSHA acted while employers await what pundits believe to be an imminent COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard. OSHA’s enforcement of the COVID-19 NEP and ERP began on March 25, 2021. O...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Some Georgia businesses might believe that Governor Brian Kemp’s April 30 Executive Order that further eliminates many of the COVID-19 safety requirements that were present in past executive orders – including removing the facemask mandate and loosening social distancing requirements – means that you can ease off your COVID-19 protocols at the workplace and your place of business. But doing so could open yourself up to significa...

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 In contrast from the past year during which OSHA focused its resources on the healthcare industries, OSHA issued detailed guidance on conducting COVID-19 inspections with the restaurant industry — both full-service and limited-service — specifically on OSHA’s target list to conduct programmed inspections. This means OSHA can show up unannounced and declare it will be conducting a COVID-19 inspection of a restaurant if that establishment is on the target list...