The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a review of legal challenges to OSHA’s vaccine and testing emergency testing standard (OSHA ETS) as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Omnibus Covid-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination rule (CMS Vaccine Mandate). Arguments are scheduled for January 7, 2022. In the meantime, OSHA has agreed that… Read More »
Workers’ Comp for Vaccine Injury
On April 20, 2021, OSHA released guidance to employers regarding potential plans to mandate Covid 19 vaccines, stating that if vaccines are required for employment, any adverse reactions to the vaccine will be considered ‘work related’ and, therefore compensable under workers’ compensation. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, the clarification comes as an… Read More »
Employee Paid Leave Rights under Covid 19
To ensure workers do not have to choose between their paychecks and public health measures, the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act and Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act, both part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), reimburses private employers with fewer than 500 employees with tax credits for the cost of providing… Read More »
Marijuana Impairment at Work in the Age of Legalization
With Illinois set to legalize recreational marijuana use January 1, 2020, a whole host of worker safety issues and potential workers’ compensation claims come into play as do potential employment law issues as employers grapple with how to handle potentially impaired employees and what consequences will follow – all within the framework of Illinois and… Read More »
Davenport Iowa Gender Based Pay Discrimination Lawyer
Pay discrimination continues to be a persistent problem for women in the workforce. Despite strides to reduce gender pay gaps, women typically receive only 79% of what men make even when taking into account occupation, location, level of education and age. Federal Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act Paying women… Read More »
Employment Discrimination Suspected Among Tech Companies
“Younger people are just smarter…”, announced Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to an audience at Stanford University in 2009, summing up what now seems to be a pervasive problem of age bias in hiring among tech companies. According to a research firm, Payscale, the median age of the average American worker is 42. At tech companies… Read More »
Employees Push Back on Arbitration Agreements | Wrongful Termination Lawyers
More and more companies are turning to arbitration agreements to thwart employees from bringing legal challenges in court. Big and small companies are requiring employees to sign arbitration clauses in what is seen as a process often lopsided in favor of the employer. Not going down without a fight, some employees are pushing back. Recently… Read More »