On May 1, 2023, the White House announced it would end the COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal employees, federal contractors and international air travelers effective May 11, the same day the federally declared...more
Last year, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a nationwide injunction against President Biden’s federal contractor COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Executive Order 14042. On Aug. 26, 2022, as...more
Last year, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a nationwide injunction against President Biden’s federal contractor COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Executive Order 14042. On Aug. 26, 2022, the U.S....more
On Jan. 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court permitted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to enforce its interim final rule requiring many Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers to vaccinate...more
Update (Jan. 15, 2022): After the Jan. 14, 2022, publication of this alert, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued updated guidance to State Survey Agency directors providing 30 days (by Feb. 13) for facilities...more
1/17/2022
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On Jan. 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency request for relief regarding one of the two Biden administration COVID-19 employee vaccine mandates on appeal before the Court...more
1/14/2022
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On late Friday Dec. 17, 2021 a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reinstated the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers, lifting the Fifth Circuit’s earlier stay...more
On Dec. 7, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia granted a motion for preliminary injunction in State of Georgia v. Biden, temporarily halting enforcement of President Biden’s federal contractor /...more
On Nov. 30, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky granted a motion for preliminary injunction in Commonwealth of Kentucky, et al. v. Biden, et al., finding that President Biden’s broad authority...more
On Nov. 4, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring employees of large employers either to get vaccinated or to test negative on a weekly basis....more
As McGuireWoods noted in a Sept. 10, 2021 alert, in Sept. 20 and Sept. 23 FAQs, and in Sept. 27 and Oct. 18 alerts, President Biden’s “Path Out of the Pandemic” employee COVID-19 vaccination mandates have three main...more
On Oct. 25, 2021 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new guidance for resolving religious objections to COVID-19 workplace vaccination mandates. This guidance comes at a time when many employees are...more
As McGuireWoods noted in a Sept. 10 alert, Sept. 20 FAQs and Sept. 27, 2021 update, part of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccination mandates applies only to federal contractors and subcontractors. And, even then, the...more
As McGuireWoods noted in a Sept. 10, 2021 alert and in Sept. 20, 2021 FAQs, President Biden’s “Path Out of the Pandemic” employee COVID-19 vaccination mandates have three main components — one of which applies only to certain...more
As McGuireWoods noted in a Sept. 10, 2021 alert and Sept. 20, 2021 FAQs, President Biden’s “Path Out of the Pandemic” COVID-19 action plan is big on concept but thin on details pending yet-to-be-issued regulations. There is,...more
9/24/2021
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As McGuireWoods noted in a Sept. 10, 2021, alert, President Biden’s broad six-part strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic is raising many questions for employers. While employers await the much-anticipated regulations, a...more
On Sept. 9, 2021, President Biden announced a broad six-part strategy to combat COVID-19 at the federal level, including extensive new vaccination and testing requirements for large private employers, certain federal...more
On May 28, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new COVID-19 vaccine guidance for employers. Although the updated FAQs do not address compliance with the Centers for Disease Control and...more
On May 6, 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-62-20 (EO N-62-20), which creates a rebuttable presumption, for purposes of receiving workers’ compensation benefits, that employees who test positive for...more
Nonprofits, like individuals and for-profit businesses, are facing significant hardships due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent legislation and administrative pronouncements include a number of targeted tax provisions and...more
On April 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) unveiled new temporary regulations for employers regarding compliance with the paid leave requirements of the new Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA)...more
As previously reported, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) requires private employers with fewer than 500 employees (and state/local government employers regardless of size) to provide special paid emergency...more
As previously reported, on March 18, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). The FFCRA’s paid leave provisions will become effective on April 1, 2020, and will apply to leave...more
3/27/2020
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Having sent students home, what do colleges, universities and K-12 schools need to do now – today, tomorrow and over the next few days? Obviously, the most important issues are safety, doing the right thing, communicating...more
As previously reported, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) passed Congress on March 18, 2020, and was signed into law by President Trump that same evening, to take effect “not later than 15 days after the...more