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On April 1, 2021, the New York Department of Health (NY DOH)
issued an update to its prior guidance for
health care personnel on returning to work following COVID-19
exposure. This update provides further clarifications regarding
quarantine, furlough, and testing for health care personnel exposed
to COVID-19, including those who are fully vaccinated or have
recovered from previous COVID-19 infection, and addresses further
changes in New York s travel advisory that also went into
effect on April 1, 2021. The updated guidance regarding
travel, however, was further superseded by a further travel advisory update on April
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Hospitality and event center workers received additional job
rights protection under a new ordinance passed by the Minneapolis
City Council. The new ordinance requires employers to recall those
workers, if and when they are needed in reverse order of seniority.
Ordinance No.2021-12, entitled Hospitality Worker Right to Recall, seeks to minimize
the impact on affected employees in an industry particularly
hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and to stabilize the workforce.
The ordinance becomes effective on May 1, 2021, and will remain in
effect until one (1) year after the termination of the
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On April 12, 2021, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced
that the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(MIOSHA) would extend the sunset date for the state s COVID-19 emergency rules, which were set to
expire on April 14, 2021, for six more months.
Included in the emergency rules is a controversial remote-work policy rule that requires Michigan
employers to direct employees to work at home to the extent
that their work activities can feasibly be completed
remotely. Attempting to define feasibly, MIOSHA
has stated in the past that obstacles such as economic challenge,
Janie Schulman spoke to Marketplace about Morrison & Foerster's third COVID-19 Impact Survey, which found that lawyers expect pandemic-related lawsuits to skyrocket in 2021.
my Miller, shareholder in the Litigation section and co-head of the firm's Washington, D.C. office and Barbara Binzak Blumenfeld, shareholder in the firm's Life Sciences Industry Group, presented a.