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CDF Webinar: COVID-19 Compliance for California Employers – New Vaccine Mandates (plural) and Ongoing Administrative Concerns

| Filed Under: General (CA)

With the rise of multiple COVID variants, FDA approval of at least one vaccine, and now the federal government requiring that private employers mandate vaccinations, COVID-19 continues to infect California employers with a host of compliance hurdles, each one with increased costs, litigation exposure and employee morale concerns.

During this engaging and timely session, Partner and Co-Chair of CDF’s COVID Taskforce, Todd Wulffson, as well as Partner & CDF Blog Editorial Board member, Kimberly Jansen, will review up-to-the-minute compliance obligations, trends and best practices involving return to work, COVID testing/vaccination issues, and much more.

Topics covered during this webinar include:

-New Vaccine Mandates, Exemptions and Mandatory Testing
-State and Local Mask and Distancing Guidance
-Evolving Return-to-Work Issues and Concerns
-Managing Employee Concerns and Complaints
-Industry Best Practices Above and Beyond the New Laws to Reduce Liability and Exposure

Due to the topic, we have scheduled this webinar for one hour and 15 minutes, allotting for a 15-minute Q&A session at the end. Register today to hear how you can stay ahead of the constantly-evolving compliance requirements relating to COVID-19.

Certificates for CA MCLE, HRCI & SHRM pending.

New York Edges Closer to Prepandemic Life, as City Workers Return

| Filed Under: HR Headlines

The city’s more than 300,000 municipal employees must report to full-time, in-person work on Monday. Many of them are not happy.

Google Could Be Violating Labor Laws With Pay for Temp Workers

| Filed Under: HR Headlines

The company realized months ago that it could be running afoul of pay laws in a number of countries but has been slow to fix the problem, according to internal documents.

To Avoid Bias, Rethink Your Résumé

| Filed Under: HR Headlines

A behavioral economist answers questions on applying for jobs after a gap in employment and renovating to make the house of your dreams

Senators Seek Investigation of Amazon Over Treatment of Pregnant Workers

| Filed Under: HR Headlines

Lawmakers cite at least seven lawsuits filed against company between 2015 and 2019

Federal workers’ vaccine mandate prompts confusion as the government struggles to return to offices

| Filed Under: HR Headlines

President Biden’s sweeping mandate to vaccinate millions of federal workers and contractors against the coronavirus left officials confronting how to carry it out amid a fusillade of workplace rules that could complicate — and lengthen — the process and further upend a government struggling to return to normal.

Labor Law: Your employee presents a letter saying she is exempt from the COVID vaccine due a religion you’ve never heard of. Now what?

| Filed Under: HR Headlines

Physician Harriet Foster (left) administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Khady Gueye at a church in Richmond.

Workers comp cases fell in the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean employees working from home had no pains

| Filed Under: HR Headlines

In the coronavirus pandemic that sent millions of employees home to begin new work routines, reports of occupational injuries that were expected failed to materialize.

Biden vaccine mandate pulls workplace safety agency to center of political storm

| Filed Under: HR Headlines

The federal agency that President Biden has tasked with implementing a national vaccine mandate has struggled to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, drawing fire for failing to issue broad safety rules specifically aimed at keeping workers safe from workplace transmission.

What Biden’s vaccine mandates mean for millions of Americans in the workplace

| Filed Under: HR Headlines

The vaccine mandate President Biden announced Thursday is the most aggressive step he’s taken so far to get shots in the arms of the nearly 80 million eligible Americans who are not yet vaccinated. 

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How Some Women Are Remaking the Workplace to Better Suit Their Lives

| Filed Under: HR Headlines

As offices begin to reopen, some women are setting new physical, emotional and cultural boundaries.

Republicans seize on Biden’s novel use of a law on workplace safety to attack his vaccine mandates.

| Filed Under: HR Headlines

President Biden’s far-reaching assertion of presidential authority to require vaccines for 80 million American workers relies on a first-of-its-kind application of a 51-year-old law that grants the federal government the power to protect employees from “grave dangers” at the workplace.