New Federal COVID-19 Rules for Healthcare Workers in the Pipeline

New Federal COVID-19 Rules for Healthcare Workers in the Pipeline

The federal government is slated to publish a new, permanent set of COVID-19 rules for healthcare workers in early Fall 2022. (See here.) In years past, federal OSHA published temporary COVID-19 rules for healthcare workers (those rules, you might recall, were called emergency temporary standard). Those temporary rules expired last December.

What You Need to Know about Independent Contractor Relationships in California

Courtesy of AB 5 and a (controversial) case called Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles, California generally presumes that all of your workers are employees—not independent contractors. One potential workaround for this general presumption involves so-called “business-to-business” relationships (colloquially abbreviated “B2B”), in which one business contracts with another business to supply a worker that the latter business needs.

The EEOC Revises COVID-19 Guidelines, including a New Testing Standard

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has updated its guidelines with respect to COVID-19. The EEOC has updated its “Technical Assistance Questions and Answers” which includes a new standard of how employers who are still testing their employees for COVID-19 can comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”).  To note, these guidelines do not have the force and effect of law, however, they provide valuable insight into how the EEOC interprets the laws that they enforce.