HR Support on Addressing Vaccinations in the Workplace

New and Updated

• Date:

  November 12, 2021

  Type:

  Podcasts and Webinars

  Webinar: The OSHA Vaccine Emergency Rule - What HR Needs to Know Now

  In this webinar, attorneys Phillip Bauknight and Kevin Troutman, partners at Fisher Phillips, shares key information employers need to know about implementing a vaccine mandate under the ETS and what it means for their workplaces and their employees.

• Date:

  November 10, 2021

  Type:

  News

  Illinois Clears Way for Employers to Take Stronger Measures to Combat COVID-19

  An amended Illinois law takes a unique step to make it easier for employers that wish to terminate, otherwise discipline or deny employment to workers who refuse to be vaccinated.

• Type:

  Legal Timetable

  Arizona Provides COVID-19 Vaccine Accommodation Protections

• Date:

  November 8, 2021

  Type:

  News

  5th Circuit Stays OSHA Vaccine Mandate

  The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted an emergency motion to stay the enforcement of OSHA's recently published emergency temporary standard mandating COVID-19 vaccination or testing for employers with 100 or more employees.

• Date:

  November 4, 2021

  Type:

  News

  OSHA: Private Businesses Must Ensure Employees Are Fully Vaccinated by January 4

  OSHA's COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard requires employers with 100 or more employees to mandate that their workers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or face weekly testing beginning January 4.

• Type:

  Legal Timetable

  Iowa Provides COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Exemptions and Unemployment Protections

• Date:

  November 2, 2021

  Type:

  News

  Iowa Guarantees Unemployment Benefits for Employees Fired for Refusing COVID Vaccine

  A new Iowa law ensures that employees fired for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine will still qualify to receive unemployment benefits and continues the trend of certain states pushing back against widespread vaccine mandates.

• Date:

  October 21, 2021

  Type:

  News

  Washington State Fires Football Coaches for Vaccine Refusal, But Debate Rages Elsewhere

  Washington State University football coach Nick Rolovich has become perhaps the most high-profile employee in the nation to lose their job for refusing to comply with a vaccine mandate.

• Type:

  Legal Timetable

  Texas Prohibits Vaccine Mandates

• Date:

  October 12, 2021

  Type:

  News

  Texas Bans COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order bars all state entities, including private employers, from mandating that individuals receive a COVID-19 vaccine.