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.

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January 13, 2022

The Supreme Court Halts Federal OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccinate-or-Testing Mandate for Large Employers

As we predicted, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling blocking the enforcement of federal OSHA’s COVID-19 vaccinate-or-testing mandates for large employers. In short, the Court has determined that the federal OSHA rules are illegal as they exceed the scope of powers that Congress delegated (granted) to OSHA.

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December 21, 2021

Back from the Dead: OSHA’s COVID-19 Rules for Large Employers

COVID-19 laws are changing rapidly and unpredictably. This past Friday, December 17, 2021, a federal court in Ohio surprisingly reversed a nationwide injunction against federal OSHA’s COVID-19 vaccinate-or-testing mandate for large employers (i.e., employers with 100 or more employees). Thus, effective last Friday, the federal OSHA rules (the “Rules”) are back in effect.

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December 17, 2021

Cal/OSHA’s Latest COVID-19 Rules

In the ever-changing flurry of COVID-19 laws, Cal/OSHA “re-adopted” its COVID-19 ETS rules while implementing critical changes to the same.

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

The Supreme Court Halts Federal OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccinate-or-Testing Mandate for Large Employers

Back from the Dead: OSHA’s COVID-19 Rules for Large Employers

Cal/OSHA’s Latest COVID-19 Rules

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