News & Analysis as of

Health and Safety Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Workplace Safety

Fisher Phillips

So You Think This COVID Thing Has Ended? Not So Fast! 5 Tips for Employers to Prepare for Cold, Flu, and COVID Season

Fisher Phillips on

For many businesses, the pandemic seems like a distant memory, but COVID-19 is not entirely behind us. Indeed, as the cold and flu season approaches, the CDC predicts that COVID-19 cases will increase across the country. Such...more

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints

The CDC Issues New COVID-Related Guidance: What This Means for Employers

For the first time since 2021, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new guidance relaxing the quarantine requirements for COVID-19.  The new guidance is the result of fewer COVID-related deaths and...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Workplace Practices Could Change Following CDC’s New COVID-19 Guidance

Fox Rothschild LLP on

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released updated guidance regarding COVID-19. On March 1, 2024, the CDC eliminated its recommendation that people who contract the virus isolate for five...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

If Pain, Yes Gain – Part 120: CDC Shortens COVID-19 Isolation Guidelines; Potential Impact on New York COVID-19 Paid Leave

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

On March 1, 2024, the CDC scaled back its guidance regarding COVID-19, most notably ending its recommendation of a five-day quarantine following a positive COVID-19 diagnosis....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

CDC Trims COVID-19 Isolation Guidance: COVID-Positive Individuals Need Only Isolate for 24 Hours After Being Fever-Free

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

Seyfarth Synopsis: The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is shifting its COVID-19 isolation guidance, advising that COVID-positive individuals no longer need to isolate once they have been...more

Littler

That’s A Wrap! CDC Reduces Recommended COVID-19 Isolation Period

Littler on

On March 1, 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it is updating its COVID-19 guidance and is no longer recommending that individuals who test positive for COVID-19 isolate for five days.  The...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

COVID-19 and the Workplace: Where Do We Stand?

As we have reported previously, on April 10, 2023 President Biden signed legislation ending the COVID-19 National Emergency.  However, the rollback of COVID-19 requirements was already underway in many state and municipal...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Changes to COVID Isolation Requirements

Greenberg Glusker LLP on

For several years, California’s COVID isolation guidelines have played a key role in “stopping the spread” in the workplace by requiring contagious employees to isolate at home. As of March 13, 2023, the California Department...more

Fisher Phillips

Caging the Kraken: 4 Steps for Employers to Curb the Spread of COVID’s Most Contagious Mutation

Fisher Phillips on

As we enter the new year, and the fourth year of the pandemic, the COVID-19 virus continues to mutate. Two new Omicron subvariants, known as XBB and XBB.1.5 – unofficially nicknamed “Kraken” by some scientists – have emerged...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

As We Approach 2023, Where are We With COVID and the Workplace?

Foley & Lardner LLP on

COVID-19 appears poised to remain with us on a long-term basis, and with every passing day, guidelines appear to become more lax. For example, the CDC now requires a person who tests positive to isolate for five days as...more

Littler

Bouncing Back (and Forth): Statewide Reopening and Mitigation Steps (UPDATED)

Littler on

NOTE: Given the reduction in activity on this topic, THIS POST WILL NO LONGER BE UPDATED, as of October 7, 2022. ******************************************************** As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, government...more

Littler

New York State to Follow CDC Guidance on COVID-19 Quarantines and Isolations

Littler on

On September 14, 2022, the New York State Department of Health updated its COVID-19 quarantine and isolation webpage to remove earlier written COVID-19 guidance and tables dated May 31, 2022 (the “May Guidance”). The webpage...more

Kaufman & Canoles

Employment Law Update – Fall 2022

Kaufman & Canoles on

CDC EASES COVID GUIDELINES - On August 11th, the Centers for Disease Control issued new Guidance for handling exposure to, and cases of, COVID-19. Of particular interest in the workplace, the CDC no longer recommends that...more

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth

New CDC Guidance, Proposed Updates To Emergency Temporary Standards, And Continued Immigration Flexibility

While some of us may have thought COVID-19 would be temporary, we now know it is here to stay. Yesterday, the CDC released new guidance on what to do after being exposed to someone with COVID-19. Additionally, Cal/OSHA is...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

CDC Further Relaxes COVID-19 Isolation and Mask Guidance: What Employers Need to Know

On August 11, 2022, the CDC issued new guidance regarding isolation and masking for individuals exposed to COVID-19. According to the CDC, high levels of immunity and the availability of COVID-19 prevention and management...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

COVID-19 Policy Updates and Implications for the Workplace

On August 11, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued updated COVID-19 guidance “to help people better understand their risk, how to protect themselves and others, what actions to take if exposed to...more

Morgan Lewis

How the Monkeypox Outbreak Differs from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Guide for Employers

Morgan Lewis on

As US federal and local governments have declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency, employers attuned to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic may be left wondering what protocols to implement before and after a...more

Morgan Lewis

How the CDC’s Updated COVID-19 Guidance Affects Employers

Morgan Lewis on

While state and local governments and local health authorities can continue to require individuals and businesses to maintain stricter standards than the CDC’s recently updated guidance, the changes reflect the CDC’s current...more

CDF Labor Law LLP

 CDC’s New Relaxed COVID-19 Guidelines & How They Affect the Workplace

CDF Labor Law LLP on

On August 11, 2022, the Center for Disease Control (“CDC”) updated and further loosened COVID-19 guidelines. A summary of the guidelines demonstrate the shift in the CDC’s focus to avoid transmitting severe illness, as...more

Bodman

CDC Streamlines COVID-19 Guidance

Bodman on

The CDC announced new guidance for individuals exposed to or testing positive for COVID-19.  It is important for employers to understand the modifications to the CDC guidance when addressing employees regarding isolation and...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Dealing with the Monkeypox Virus at Work

Just as employers have figured out how to navigate the COVID-19 virus, the next one is poised to take hold – the monkeypox virus. Now declared a global and national public health emergency by the World Health Organization and...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

The Monkeypox National Public Health Emergency: Guidance for Employers

Fox Rothschild LLP on

Following state of emergency declarations by state and local governments around the country, the Biden Administration officially declared Monkeypox a national public health emergency on Aug. 4, 2022. The declaration...more

Littler

Facing Your Face Mask Duties – A List of Statewide Orders (UPDATED)

Littler on

Governors and public health officials across the country implemented stringent mitigation measures to help contain the spread of COVID-19. As COVID-19 case rates fluctuate, face coverings are not uncommon as a preventative...more

Robinson+Cole Environmental Law +

The EEOC Releases New COVID-19 Guidance – What Employers Should Know

Over the last two years, employers have followed the evolving laws and guidance issued by federal, state, and local governments and public health authorities. On July 12, 2022, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...more

Fisher Phillips

Monkeypox: What, If Anything, Should Employers Do?

Fisher Phillips on

Given the recent trauma many employers experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, proactive employers are wondering what, if anything, they need to do about the monkeypox virus, which was recently declared a global health...more

465 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 19

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide