Peter Lowe Discusses OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard with Maine News Media

Partner Peter Lowe has been in demand with the Maine news media after the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) relating to COVID-19 vaccination and the workplace. The standard requires employees in workplaces with 100 or more workers present either to receive the COVID-19 vaccine or follow weekly...

B&I Issues Employment Law Update on OSHA Guidance for the Healthcare Industry

B&I has published a new employment law update in its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. The update details the new Emergency Temporary Standard issued by OSHA for employers in the healthcare industry.

B&I Issues Employment Law Update on Reporting COVID-19 Cases to OSHA

B&I has published a new employment law update to its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. In this update, we discuss new guidance from OSHA on reporting COVID-19 hospitalizations and fatalities.

B&I Publishes Employment Law Updates on OSHA Guidance and Maine Work Search Requirement

B&I has added two employment law updates to its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. The first alert discusses new comprehensive return-to-work guidance from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for non-essential businesses. The second highlights the Maine Department of Labor’s decision to resume the work-search requirement for unemployment benefits this summer.

B&I Publishes Employment Law Updates on Temperature Checks, OSHA Record-keeping

This week, B&I added two employment law updates to its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. In the first, Peter Lowe and Hannah Wurgaft discuss whether employers must compensate employees for time spent on COVID-19-related temperature checks. In the second, B&I’s employment law team review OSHA’s revised COVID-19 record-keeping requirements.

B&I Employment Update: OSHA COVID-19 Recordkeeping Requirements

On April 13, 2020, Brann & Isaacson published a legal update on OSHA reporting requirements for COVID-19 employee infections as part of its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. This update outlines the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s newly published guidance regarding employers’ duty to record and report cases of COVID-19 in their work-forces.