OSHA Issues New Workplace Safety Guidance Regarding COVID-19
From our partners at Proskauer – By Harris Mufson, Lexie Reynolds and Heylee Bernstein – February 1, 2021 Last week President Biden directed the Secretary of Labor to issue revised guidance to employers on workplace safety during the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Important Health and Safety Information: OSHA Deadlines, CDC Guidance
OSHA will collect information on injuries and illnesses to identify emerging hazards or areas of concern. And the CDC provided recommendations on what heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) strategies employers should use to lower...
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DOL Ends Self-Reporting PAID Program
By Allan Bloom on February 1, 2021 On January 29, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that it was discontinuing the Payroll Audit Independent Determination (“PAID”) program, effective immediately. Under the program, which began in 2018, employers could self-report wage...
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Employer OSHA Liabilities for Remote Workers
Encouraging remote work has become a new normal for a variety of reasons. Whether it is to reduce costs of operating a physical place of business, address pandemic reasons or allow employees to have a...
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