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First impressions of OSHA’s COVID vaccine mandate

Business Management Daily

Employers have been waiting with anticipation and the wait is finally over. Which employers are covered? Employers with 100 or more employees are covered under the ETS. Employers with 100 or more employees are covered under the ETS. Health care employers, which are also already subject to a separate ETS.

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Helping Employees During Coronavirus/COVID-19 Pandemic

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Healthcare workers, delivery drivers and grocery store shelf stockers are being overworked while waiters, bartenders, musicians and those in the hospitality industry are dealing with shutdowns, layoffs, and unemployment. All of them are looking to their employers for help to get through this uncertain time. . Paid Leave.

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Update: What you need to know about pandemic leave policies in 2021

Business Management Daily

The FFCRA – the first comprehensive federal paid leave law – set the floor for COVID-19 leave. Its sunset doesn’t mean, however, that employers are off the hook. Instead, they have to deal with a patchwork of leave laws – some specific to COVID and some not. However, employee entitlements to paid leave were not.

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A closer look at the Families First Cornoavirus Response Act

Business Management Daily

Here are the provisions of interest to Payroll and HR. Stay tuned: The Families First Coronavirus Response Act is intended to be the first tranche of relief to help employees and employers deal with the work-related impacts of the coronavirus outbreak and the COVID-19 illness the virus causes.

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Accommodate or Terminate? Firing on ADA legal considerations

Business Management Daily

Firing disabled workers is one of the riskiest moves an employer can make. The ADA requires covered employers to provide reasonable accommodation to disabled employees. Employers may not discriminate against an employee or applicant because the person needs an accommodation. Employers need to prepare for that trap.

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FMLA leave is complicated by sunsetting COVID relief act

Business Management Daily

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act’s (FFCRA) pending sunset creates challenges for employers and employees seeking FMLA leave for COVID related reasons. The FFCRA expanded Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ) rights and funded paid leave for many pandemic-related reasons.