This is an update to our prior OSHA/COVID-19 employer alerts. Cal/Osha has developed a model program to assist employers in creating their own workplace “written” Covid-19 Prevention Plan (CPP). This updated model, published June 29, 2021, reflects the changes made from the June 17, 2021, Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS). Cal/Osha...
Employers - Reopening Businesses The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (“CDC”) surprise relaxation of the COVID-19 mask guidance on Thursday, May 13th, puts us on a path to pre-pandemic life for fully vaccinated people. But, employers should consider whether to relax pandemic health and safety protocols at the workplace...
Employers in LA County: Government Guide (read that – “Order”) for Reopening Businesses Effective May 6th, Los Angeles County hit the YELLOW tier. Employers now have an updated order from the county Department of Public Health to use when reopening (or continuing to work in) office worksites: “Reopening Safer at...
NEW LANDLORD PROTECTIONS - COVID BANKRUPTCY FILINGS BY TENANTS The newly enacted Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (“CAP”) makes several amendments to the Bankruptcy Code based upon the severe financial hardships suffered by both tenant debtors and landlords as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The amendments relate to the deferral...
COVID 19: Business Interruption Insurance Coverage Update Insurers for shuttered businesses have almost uniformly denied claims for business interruption. But, insureds across the country have challenged the denials. Those lawsuits are starting to come to conclusion and while judges have sided with the insurance companies in many cases, restaurants in...
COVID 19: Should Employers Mandate Employees Take the Vaccine? The first COVID-19 vaccines are being administered and while it may be quite some time before the vaccines will be available to most of us, employers may well want to begin considering whether to have a vaccine policy. Why? In other...
EEOC Answers Questions About COVID-19, the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act and Other EEO Laws The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued technical Assistance Questions and Answers in a December 16th update. If you are an employer, you should review it. We provide it here in full: INTRODUCTION All EEOC materials...
HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS – COVID FINANCIAL HARDSHIPS CASCADE OVER THE PROVIDER AND THEIR CREDITORS Healthcare providers across the nation are suffering financial hardship caused by COVID-19, amounting to more than half a trillion dollars since March1. Besides the increased costs associated with COVID-19 protocols, losses accumulate due to canceled services, whether...
CALIFORNIA EVICTION (UNLAWFUL DETAINER) BAN IS BACK; LOCAL EVICTION MORATORIUMS REMAIN; AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (CDC) ISSUED ITS OWN EVICTION BAN CALIFORNIA AB 3088 As we have updated previously, at the inception of the COVID-19 closures, the California Courts issued an emergency order banning evictions in the entire state of...
Moratorium on Collecting Employee Payroll Taxes – To Collect or Not to Collect Now, That is the Question The President directed the Secretary of the Treasury to use his authority to postpone the period of collection on applicable wages beginning on January 1, 2021 and ending on April...