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The state of New York has amended its whistleblower law to make it one of the most expansive in the country, providing remedies, including potentially punitive damages, to employees, former employees and independent contractors.
On November 4, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA released the long-awaited COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard ETS for employers with 100 or more employees.
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Mayor Bill de Blasio recently signed two bills, Int. No. 1415-A and Int. No. 1396-A, into law (collectively, the “Laws” or “Law”) that will have a dramatic impact on fast-food employment. Effective July 4, 2021, the Laws will subject covered [1] New York City fast-food restaurant employers to sweeping new obligations that will grant their employees rights and protections typically possessed only by employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement with a union. In effect, the Laws, which were championed by the Service E...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Last summer, we reported on Virginia’s adoption of an “Emergency Temporary Standard for Infection Disease Prevention: SARS-CoV-2 Virus That Causes COVID-19” (the “Temporary Standard”), which made Virginia the first state to implement workplace safety and health standards for COVID-19. The Temporary Standard expired on January 26, 2021. On January 27, 2021, Governor Ralph Northam approved the Final Permanent Standard (the “Permanent Standard”) previously adopted by the Virginia Safety and Health Codes Board (the “Boar...