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First impressions of OSHA’s COVID vaccine mandate

Business Management Daily

Employees who work from home. Employees who work exclusively outdoors. Employees who work in the office are covered. Employees who work from home. Employees who work exclusively outdoors. Employees may use their accrued paid sick leave for this purpose. 4, 2022.

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The deep dive on OSHA’s COVID vaccine mandate

Business Management Daily

While OSHA calls its policy a mandatory policy, you retain some flexibility: Your policy can exclude employees whose health or religion prohibits them from getting shots or employees for whom medical necessity requires a delay in vaccination. Your policy can require only certain employees to be vaccinated (e.g., Really, how can you track it?

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Helping Employees During Coronavirus/COVID-19 Pandemic

Best Money Moves

The Coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak is dramatically reshaping the working world. 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. Paid Leave.

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Ask the Attorney: Paid leave and telework

Business Management Daily

Q: “If an employee wants to take the emergency FMLA and we state they can work from home but the employee refuses because they can’t work at all due to watching their child, do they qualify for this leave? Obviously, employers could not force a very ill employee to work by any means, including to telework.

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Performance Appraisal & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

This includes: Providing daily wage workers compensation for hours not worked due to the impact of this virus. Renewed paid sick leave policies so that infected and quarantined employees, as well as those who stay at home to care for sick family members, will receive sick pay.

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Shaping Performance & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

This includes: Providing daily wage workers compensation for hours not worked due to the impact of this virus. Renewed paid sick leave policies so that infected and quarantined employees, as well as those who stay at home to care for sick family members, will receive sick pay.

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What comes after the pandemic’s peak? Six trends, three predictions and one sure thing

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

In many jurisdictions, second-wave peaks in new infections, hospitalizations and deaths are yet to come. Direct COVID-19 work-related illness, disability, and death claims are rising in number; psychological injury claims for front-line healthcare and other essential workers are also on the rise. Six Trends 1.