On January 26, 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) announced that it is withdrawing the emergency temporary standard that required employers with 100 or more employees to mandate COVID-19...more
OSHA’S COVID-19 VACCINATION AND TESTING EMERGENCY TEMPORARY STANDARD -
Thursday, the United States Supreme Court issued an emergency stay of the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccination and testing and masking...more
1/17/2022
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UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HEARING SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 7, 2022 -
As detailed in our prior alert, following the revival of the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccination and testing and masking requirement for...more
1/4/2022
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Many Massachusetts employers currently have COVID-19 vaccination policies that permit employees to elect whether to get vaccinated or, alternatively, to wear face coverings and get weekly COVID-19 tests. An open question has...more
On November 4, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued its long-anticipated COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”). Businesses have been impatiently awaiting this...more
11/5/2021
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On September 9, 2021, President Biden issued an Order requiring federal contractors to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations and provide other COVID-19 safeguards, as reported in our client alert dated September 10, 2021. On...more
9/27/2021
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Effective today (August 27th), individuals must wear masks in all of Boston’s indoor public settings. As the City of Boston explained in its August 20th “Order Requiring Face Coverings in the City of Boston,” the mask mandate...more