Reporting guidance should reflect risks to a wide range of workers Faced with a novel lethal virus, employers have struggled to implement their legal duty to protect staff from harm in the workplace. There is no international case definition for attributing an occupational origin to covid-19 ...
What about California’s COVID-19 Workplace Regulation? California’s presentCOVID-19 emergency regulationis expected to be re-adopted in December for the final time. Then, in spring of 2022, it will either expire or be turned into a permanent regulation. On September 23, 2021, Cal/OSHA h...
Reporting guidance should reflect risks to a wide range of workers Faced with a novel lethal virus, employers have struggled to implement their legal duty to protect staff from harm in the workplace. There is no international case definition for attributing an occupational origin to covid-19 case...
Anu Madgavkar, partner at the McKinsey Global Institute based in our Mumbai office, discusses the disproportionate effect COVID-19 has had on women’s lives and livelihoods in Asia, and the opportunities available if steps are taken to address gender ine
Workplace Closure and the Collective Bargaining Agreement Workers’ Compensation and COVID-19 Exposure FMLA and Absences Reporting Pay Obligations Predictive Scheduling Obligations Return-to-Work Strategy To aid employers in the effort to aggressively contain the virus without running afoul of applicable la...
Once an employee has tested positive, what do you say? How does an employer walk the fine line between protecting the privacy of affected individuals and ensuring the safety of others in the workplace? Because a national public health emergency has been declared and all 50 states and the Dist...
What are the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) requirements for reporting occurrences of COVID-19 in the workplace? Cal/OSHA has provided guidelines in a question-and-answer format in its Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). T
Within one business day of “notice of potential exposure” to COVID-19 in the workplace, an employer must then do the following: Provide written notice to all employees who were at the same location as the exposed individual within the infectious period. Notice must be given in the manner...
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A medical worker collects a swab sample at a COVID-19 drive-through testing site in Los Angeles, California, the United States, Jan. 10, 2022. (Xinhua) The largest reductions in workplace exposures occurred in June 2020 after introduction of improved infection prevention and control measures, ...