The coronavirus pandemic doomed Gov. Gavin Newsom's ambitious plans last year to combat homelessness, expand behavioral health services and create a state agency to control soaring health care costs.
10 Major Malfunctions At Disney Parks
Disney has designed a system for their amusement parks that usually runs very smoothly. People love returning to Disney World and Disneyland every single year because there is so much to do and see.
However, the sheer magnitude of the number of rides and attractions, combined with the millions of people who come in and out of the parks each year, the odds are that something will inevitably go wrong. Here are ten major malfunctions that happened at Disney Parks.
10The Not-So-Magic Carpet Ride
At Disney parks, live musical shows reenact some of the most famous scenes from animated films. Kids love watching their favorite “real” characters on stage. Usually, the live performance has some sort of show-stopping feature that amazes everyone in the theater. In the case of “Disney’s Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular,” there is a “real” magic carpet that lifts in the air during the song “A Whole New World.”
Thursday, January 7, 2021
With little forewarning to the regulated community, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (“Cal/OSHA”) passed a sweeping new standard requiring employers in the state to implement prescribed COVID-19 protections. On November 19, Cal/OSHA voted unanimously to pass the “Emergency COVID-19 Prevention Regulations” (the “Standard”) and on November 30, the Standard went into effect. As covered in our previous updates, the Standard obligates employers to, among other things, write and implement a COVID-19 Prevention Program, engage in contact tracing following any positive case that involved potential workplace exposure, require physical distancing and mask wearing and improve ventilation, and to report all “outbreaks” to the public health department.
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A crowded indoor poker room at Graton Resort and Casino in Rohnert Park in late December 2020. Casinos on tribal lands in California are not required to adhere to statewide COVID-19 orders.
(Courtesy of Graton Casino and Resort employee)
As California continues to grapple with a worsening winter surge of COVID-19 cases, some businesses remain able to operate outside the purview of state shutdown orders aimed to protect public health during the pandemic. Tribal resorts and casinos in California operate under federal law on federally protected sovereign land known as rancherias – so they re not required to comply with orders issued by Gov. Newsom or county officials.
COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Prompts EEOC to Update Guidance Regarding Mandatory Vaccinations in the Workplace
The rollout of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in the United States has triggered extensive discussion around the law concerning mandatory vaccine policies in the workplace. This discussion will almost certainly evolve over the coming months, as more becomes known about vaccine availability at the time of widespread office reopening, side effects and other considerations.
In the meantime, on December 16, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its pandemic-related guidance and FAQs, principally with respect to the interplay between workplace vaccine mandates and federal anti-discrimination laws. Consistent with prior EEOC guidance regarding flu and other vaccinations, the EEOC reaffirmed that, in general, employers may lawfully impose a vaccine mandate as a condition to return to the workplace, and, more specifically, as a lawful qualification s