As of January 1, 2022, Illinois employers must abide by significant new amendments to the Illinois Freedom to Work Act (the “Act”). Specifically, these amendments pertain to non-competition and non-solicitation agreements between employers and their employees that are entered into after January 1,…
On December 27, 2021, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) withdrew the non-recordkeeping portions of the Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard (“Healthcare ETS”). In its Statement on the Status of the OSHA COVID-19 Healthcare ETS (“Statement”), OSHA announced that it…
Employers with 100 or more employees may feel whiplash as they once again prepare to pivot in connection with the Biden Administration’s push to implement mandatory vaccination-or-test policies in the workplace. On Friday, December 17, 2021, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency…
The Biden Administration’s push for mandatory vaccinations in the workplace has been dealt another blow, this time to the Interim Final Rule (the “CMS Rule”) issued on November 5, 2021 by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and scheduled to go into effect on December 6,…
Employment Practice attorney Shelley M. Jackson discusses the new vaccination requirements for employers with over 100 employees.
Employment Practice attorneys Amy J. Adolay, Shelley M. Jackson, and Elizabeth M. Roberson recently hosted a webinar on the new vaccination requirements for employers with over 100 employees: Overview of New Federal COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements for Employers. A recording of the webinar and the…
Yesterday employers learned details of two significant new COVID-19 employment-related vaccine and safety mandates from the Biden Administration. First, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) released an Interim Final Rule applying an Emergency Temporary Standard (“OSHA…
Earlier this week the EEOC updated its Technical Assistance Questions and Answers (“Q&A”) to add a section discussing religious accommodations to the COVID-19 vaccines. If your company has not yet had to determine whether an employee qualifies for an accommodation because of a religious objection…
Many businesses believe their company information is “trade secret” information deserving of special protection. But is it really? How can you protect and show it really is trade secret information? One way is to conduct an internal trade secret audit.
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Yesterday, Thursday, September 9, 2021, President Biden announced that he has signed new Executive Orders relating to mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations. Per the President’s “Path out of the Pandemic: President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan” (“the “Plan”), which can be found here, President Biden's…
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (the “Court”) recently issued a unanimous appellate decision in Klassen, et al. v. Trustees of Indiana University, ruling that Indiana University’s (the “University”) COVID-19 vaccine mandate (the “Mandate”) did not violate any constitutional right. The University…
