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California Bill Would Give Farmworkers Extra Heat Relief: What Agricultural Employers Need to Know About the Crackdown on Heat...

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With California once again expecting extreme heat conditions this summer, state officials are ramping up efforts to protect agricultural workers by punishing employers who don’t comply with heat standards. The state is...more

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California Considers Workers’ Compensation Heat Illness Presumption for Agricultural Workers

In February 2024, California State Senator Dave Cortese introduced Senate Bill (SB) 1299. The bill would add section 3212.81 to the California Labor Code to establish a workers’ compensation presumption related to heat...more

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Superior Court Affirms Decision That Claimant Failed to Prove She Contracted COVID-19 at Work, but Does Not Reach Issue of Whether...

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Hudson v. Beebe Medical Center, S23A-10-002 NEP, 2024 WL 36063 (Del. Super. Jan. 3, 2024). Ms. Hudson worked as a front-line nurse for the employer on its COVID-19 floor in the Fall of 2020. She contracted COVID at some...more

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How to Make AI-Powered Productivity Gains Stick

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Manufacturers have long sought strategies to boost productivity on factory floors. Increasingly, they are tapping AI to analyze worker performance and raise efficiency....more

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Heat-Related Illnesses under New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Law

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With summer in full swing accompanied by record-high temperatures, employers should consider developing and implementing measures to mitigate  the risk of employees developing heat-related illnesses while working outside....more

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COVID-19: Vaccine Injury Compensation Status

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On May 5, 2023, the World Health Organization declared an end to the global health emergency caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, known as COVID-19. While the emergency has, in many ways, waned, the virus and the need for COVID-19...more

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Why You Need a Designated Occupational Clinic

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Are you familiar with this scenario? One of your employees has a seemingly minor injury while working. After hitting her hand on the corner of her desk, she decides to visit her primary care doctor through her private medical...more

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New Laws for New York Employers in a New Year: What You Need to Know as 2023 Unfolds

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After a few years of rapid and expansive change to New York’s workplace laws, involving adjustments to workplace safety, employee pay, benefits, and privacy, there was a noticeable slowdown for the state legislature this past...more

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Québec Employers: The Rules for Injured Workers’ Temporary Assignment and Workplace Reintegration Have Changed

​​​​​​​On October 6, 2021, the Act to modernize the occupational health and safety regime took effect. As indicated in the act’s title, its purpose was to modernize Québec’s occupational health and safety regime with regard...more

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California Expands Employee Protections: A Dozen New Employment Laws Impacting Employers

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California’s Legislature recently ended another busy session, sending a slew of new employee-friendly bills to Governor Gavin Newsom, who was not stingy with his pen....more

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How the Rebuttable Presumption Influences COVID-19  Workers’ Compensation Claims in New Jersey

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rise in occupational exposure claims filed for employees who allege they have contracted COVID-19 in the course and scope of their employment. However, unlike other workers’...more

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The Butterfly Effect: How Global Dynamics Are Impacting Workers’ Compensation Claims

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Recent national and world events have created a perfect storm for workers compensation (WC) claims. The move of baby boomers out of the workforce was already shifting demographics when the pandemic sparked the Great...more

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COVID-19-Related Orders and Legislation Governing Business Operations, Limiting Liability and Expanding Workers’ Compensation...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the vast majority of states across the country implemented “stay at home” orders requiring the closure of, or severely restricting, nonessential business operations...more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

Death Claim Series - To Whom are the Benefits Owed?

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Over the last several weeks, I have been releasing a series of articles on North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Death Claims. This series addresses the following five over-arching issues...more

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The COVID-19 ETS Is Gone, But Employers Must Still Take and Implement Workplace Protections – or Fail at Their Peril

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As the entire country should know by now, on January 13, 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued an Opinion reinstating the stay of enforcement by OSHA of its Emergency Temporary Standard for COVID-19 (ETS). You can...more

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Pending California Case Could Upend Workers’ Compensation “Exclusive Remedy” for COVID-19 Claims

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One silver lining for employers during the pandemic has been the reality that they shouldn’t fear any potential tort liability for COVID-19 cases stemming from the workplace – or should they? Most employers (and attorneys and...more

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[Webinar] Delta Deja Vu - What do we need to do now? - August 26th, 11:00 am CT

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The Delta variant of COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on businesses nationwide. Clients are contacting us daily with urgent questions as to how to deal with Delta and its impact on operations. As we ride the Delta wave, we...more

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Does Recording An Employee’s COVID-19 Case on Your OSHA 300 Log Mean They Get Workers’ Compensation Benefits? A 4-Step Roadmap for...

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The COVID-19 pandemic has created many unique workplace safety issues for employers. One of the most challenging developments has been whether an employee’s COVID-19 case should go on your OSHA 300 logs pursuant to the...more

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[Webinar] COVID-19: Vaccine and Return to Work Implications for Employers and Workers’ Compensation Claims - April 6th, 1:00 pm -...

Join partners Tracy A. Walsh and Shawn C. Gooden for an interactive webinar on the most recent COVID-19 developments and their repercussions regarding possible employment law, and pending legislation in Pennsylvania for...more

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When Benefits Run Their Course

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In the case of Dunbar v. Acme Southern, the employee sustained a compensable injury in 1998. He entered a settlement agreement to resolve all indemnity benefits.  The agreement allowed the employee’s medical compensation to...more

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Workplace Law Lowdown | COVID-19 Workplace Safeguards Still Apply to Vaccinated Employees

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Vaccines have arrived, prompting hope that the COVID-19 pandemic can be effectively and nationally controlled in the near future. ...more

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Q&A COVID Workplace Vaccine Issues for U.S. Employers

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As COVID-19 vaccines become more widely available and efforts are underway to increase dissemination, employers are considering whether to require employees to be vaccinated in order to be present on Company property. This...more

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What Employers Need to Know About Vaccine Administration

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BakerHostetler’s Labor and Employment Group Chair Amy Traub discusses considerations around vaccine administration for employers from the perspectives of employment law, employee safety and health, and labor-management...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

California Employers Face Various New Laws in January 2021

The California Legislature passed and Governor Newsom signed several new laws covering topics ranging from COVID-19 to leaves of absence to data reporting. Most of these laws take effect January 1, so now is a good time for...more

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What Can Employers Do About Employees Who Refuse a Vaccine?

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After a seemingless endless wait, news of COVID vaccine distribution has business owners, government offices and school district administrators faced with a legal question they could not have foreseen at the beginning of...more

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