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HR Tips on Mandatory Mask Policies During COVID-19 | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Employers have faced countless legal questions since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. As workplaces continue to reopen, another concern remains: implementing facemask policies. Layoffs, remote work, employee travel, and more all became immediate issues, almost overnight.

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No Jab, No Job: Major companies take a hard line on mandated vaccinations

HR Digest

The White House wants CEOs to lead in the fight against the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus. Some of the nation’s largest employers, after months of skirting around the fraught issue, have in recent days been compelled to make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for workers. 1 or submit to weekly testing.

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Can Your Employer Require You to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine?

HR Digest

The coronavirus pandemic is far from over for the U.S., The development and production of coronavirus vaccines are certainly one of humanity’s greatest achievements, but unless and until more of us are vaccinated, Covid-19-related hospitalizations, and deaths are likely to rise across the country. with vaccination policies.

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Ask the Attorney: Pandemic paid leave, return to work and more

Business Management Daily

(Nor do you have to provide paid leave to workers who take time off to care for children whose schools or places of care are closed under the expanded Family and Medical Leave Act provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act established at the same time as the Employee Paid Sick Leave Act.). How do we keep it that way?

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What OSHA’s new COVID safety guidelines mean for your business

Business Management Daily

These new guidelines are, in fact, simply guidelines and do not create new legal obligations. However, OSHA could consider not doing so a failure to adhere to existing mandatory safety and health standards. Take any requests seriously as employees may be legally entitled to “reasonable accommodations” under the ADA.

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COVID-19 Vaccinations: Can They Be Made Mandatory By Your Employer?

Abel HR

In November, Pfizer and Biontech announced that its vaccine for the novel Coronavirus was more than 90 percent effective at preventing study participants from getting sick with Covid-19, news that was trumped just days later when Moderna announced that its Covid-19 vaccine candidate was just shy of 95 percent effective.