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Without a decisive legal pronouncement by the federal government permitting employers to institute a vaccine mandate, employers should continue exercising caution to avoid potential legal pitfalls when devising a vaccine policy and potential mandate by allowing for legal exceptions and anticipating possible resistance based on language in FDA Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for vaccine manufacturers.
Legislators in nine states spanning the U.S. continue to collaborate to push extended producer responsibility policies for plastic packaging. They believe joint actions will carry more weight than a single legislative effort. The National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, made up of lawmakers in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington
The Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board, a seven-member body appointed by the Governor, is the standards-setting agency within the Cal/OSHA program. Over the past month, the Standard Board passed new proposed amendments to Cal/OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”). Then, on June 17, 2021, the Standards Board voted adopt a new ETS, which the Governor Newsom immediately signed
More businesses are finding fewer insurers willing to write their policies for certain types of coverage that are seeing rapidly escalating claims costs, particularly in some liability lines as well as property insurance in areas with exposure to natural catastrophes. When no insurers that are licensed in your state are willing to write a policy,
Last week, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board finally approved changes to the COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard that greatly loosen workplace restrictions that were implemented last year to protect California workers. The biggest news in the changes is that workers who have been fully vaccinated will no longer be required to wear face masks as protection, regardless
As more Americans get inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine, employers are wondering where they stand legally on requiring workers to get vaccinated, asking them whether they have been vaccinated and providing incentives for employees to get inoculated. On May 28, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission updated its COVID-19 vaccination guidance to help employers navigate this risk-fraught territory. The following are the highlights: Employers may require
After it canceled changes that were planned for its COVID-19 emergency standard last week, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board has introduced new, more relaxed revisions that it will vote on at its June 17 meeting. The Standards Board decided to cancel the revisions in response to the California Department of Public Health’s new guidance that vaccinated people will not need to mask
After Cal/OSHA’s Standards Board on June 3rd approved revisions to the COVID-19 emergency standard, it voted a week later to withdraw those changes after a swift backlash to the rules. The current emergency standard took effect in November 2020. The vote was held during a special meeting the board held on June 9 to consider the latest guidance regarding masking from the
As the economy starts waking up from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic and more companies rehire workers or bring them back to the workplace, printers and even creative agencies that are in the office can faced with a number of risks that they may not have had to contend with. That’s the conclusion of a new report, “New Emerging Risk
As the economy starts waking up from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic and more companies rehire workers or bring them back to the workplace, printers and even creative agencies that are in the office can faced with a number of risks that they may not have had to contend with. That’s the conclusion of a new report, “New Emerging Risk
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