Generally speaking, most healthcare employers would not think that their employed physicians are at risk for unionization. As opposed to interns and residents, who have experienced their own unionization push in the past several years, employed or “staff” physicians...
On January 25, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom and California legislative leaders announced they have reached an agreement to require employers again to provide COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave (SPSL), which expired on September 30, 2021. Under the...
New York State lawmakers have done it again – amending an often-forgotten whistleblower statute of limited application into a sweeping new source of employee rights that should make employers listen up and take notice. Almost two years ago it was Section 741 of the...
The Supreme Court has issued its opinion in the appeal of the 6th Circuit’s decision that vacated the 5th Circuit’s stay of OSHA’s vaccine-or-test emergency temporary standard for employers with 100 or more employees. In a 6-3 decision, strictly down...
Two justices flip to the other side. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 today to stay two injunctions that were keeping a vaccine mandate issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from taking effect in 25 states. The CMS mandate applies to most employees and...
