On Thursday, April 21, 2022, the Standards Board of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) adopted streamlined COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) regulations after several months of...more
4/26/2022
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On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, just a day before her bill was slated to be heard in the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) announced that she would hold the bill, which would have...more
With new COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations falling to pre-surge levels, on February 25, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom acted to lift almost all of the remaining provisions of his COVID-19 executive orders (EOs)....more
With the recent Omicron surge of COVID-19 easing, on Monday, February 7, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California would be ending its statewide indoor mask mandate on February 15, 2022. The change will apply only...more
As anticipated, the California State Legislature passed legislation on Monday, February 7, 2022 to provide employees otherwise entitled to paid sick leave under state law with the right to supplemental paid leave retroactive...more
2/9/2022
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Proposed Legislation Will Require Employers to Provide Additional Leave -
Governor Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders announced they had reached an agreement to restore California’s requirement that businesses provide...more
1/27/2022
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On Thursday, December 16, 2021, the Standards Board of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) voted to update and readopt rules it had previously put into effect to deal with the COVID-19...more
On Monday, December 13, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Public Health announced a renewed mask mandate for all indoor settings. The new mandate requires that face coverings be worn by all...more
12/16/2021
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New Law Permits Local Governments to Continue to Meet Remotely Until 2024 -
California’s historic open meeting law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires that local governments conduct their business in public meetings and...more
9/21/2021
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On August 18, 2021, the Los Angeles City Council approved a Motion instructing various City offices to develop a policy by September 3, 2021, that would require all City contractors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and...more
California Reopened When Rates of Infections Were Low and Vaccinations High -
On June 11, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom rescinded his March 19, 2020 “stay-at-home” order and many other restrictions his...more
8/19/2021
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After a brief period of uncertainty, it appears that California Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) will bring COVID-19 workplace mask regulations in line with federal and other state regulations that permit vaccinated...more
L.A. County Continues Improvement on COVID-19 Metrics -
Last week, L.A. County experienced continued improvement with its COVID-19 metrics.
The County’s cumulative test positivity rate fell to 17%, lower than the...more
Overall Downward Trends Continue in L.A. County -
L.A. County remains in Tier 3 of the State’s Blueprint.
As of April 13, 2021, L.A. County’s adjusted case rate had risen slightly to 3.2 new cases per 100,000 people....more
On Friday, April 16, 2021, Governor Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 93, requiring employers in several hospitality sectors to rehire workers laid off during the pandemic before filling positions with new workers....more
On Tuesday, April 6, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state will reopen its economy on June 15 if two criteria are met...more
LA County Moves to Tier 3 -
Last Tuesday, March 30, 2021, the County’s adjusted case rate reached 3.1 new cases per 100,000 residents (down from 3.7/100,000), and the seven-day test positivity rate was 1.5% (down from...more
L.A. County Remains in Tier 2 -
As of last Monday, L.A. County remains in Tier 2 of the State’s Blueprint. Last week, the County’s adjusted case rate was 3.7 new cases per 100,000 residents....more
As of last Monday, LA County entered Tier 2 of the State’s Blueprint. This change allowed the County to reopen several sectors, including limited indoor dining and expanded indoor retail and entertainment activities....more
COVID-19 Cases Continue to Decline in Los Angeles -
Last week, Los Angeles experienced the continued reduction of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. On Monday, March 1, 2021, L.A. County Director of Public...more
COVID-19 Rates Leveled Off, Hospitalizations Continue to Fall -
COVID-19 case rates leveled off slightly last week, with new reported cases averaging 1,820 per day. Hospitalizations continued to fall, and on Thursday,...more
On Monday, March 1, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced an agreement on a $6.6 billion budget package aimed to “accelerate the safe return to in-person instruction across California and empower schools to...more
COVID-19 Rates and Hospitalizations Continue to Fall -
COVID-19 infection rates, hospitalizations and fatalities continue to fall in L.A. County. New infections are down 77% since the beginning of the year,...more
COVID-19 Rates and Hospitalizations Continue to Fall; Death Rate May Have Peaked -
Over the past week, both new case rates and hospitalizations have continued to fall in the County, and it appears that daily death rates...more
COVID-19 Rates Continue Encouraging Trend -
At the L.A. County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, County Director of Public Health Dr. Barbara Ferrer said that she was “encouraged by the...more