Seattle Municipal Code Protections for Hotel Employees Take Effect
On July 1, 2020, legislation went into effect providing additional protections for certain hotel and motel employees in Seattle. The legislation was enacted to protect Seattle hotel workers from...
View ArticleCalifornia Passes Bills Expanding Rights to Both Paid and Unpaid Leave
California Assembly Bill 1867 (signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom on September 9, 2020) and Senate Bill 1383 (signed on September 17, 2020) significantly expand the rights of California...
View ArticleOregon OSHA Releases Near Final Draft of its COVID-19 Standard
Oregon OSHA has released its “Near Final Draft” of a COVID-19 Temporary Standard. This proposed new regulation sets forth a number of new rules for how an employer must operate in order to prevent the...
View ArticleOregon Employment Department Sponsors “Town Halls” to Discuss Paid Family and...
As many of you know, in 2019 the Oregon Legislature passed (and Governor Brown signed) HB 2005, which creates a Paid Family and Medical Leave program for Oregon employees. Our original blog posts about...
View ArticleUtah Announces New COVID-19 Protocols
In the face of a significant COVID-19 surge, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert announced yesterday the implementation of a new regime for evaluating COVID-19 transmission risk and enhanced measures for mask use,...
View ArticleOregon Has Updated Face Covering and Mask Requirements
The Oregon Health Authority has again modified the state’s requirements for masks and face coverings. The new guidance expands the face covering requirements we wrote about here and here. The new...
View ArticleRight To Recall Laws Continue To Proliferate Throughout California
The public health crisis caused by COVID-19 has caused lawmakers up and down California to consider new and previously unheard of ways to protect employees. While most of these methods have involved...
View ArticleNew Requirements on Employers After Utah Declares State of Emergency Due to...
Utah residents were advised Sunday night of a state of emergency arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to a significant spike in cases and attendant strain on Utah hospital facilities and...
View ArticleTake Action to Comply with OR-OSHA’s Final Temporary COVID-19 Safety Rules
On November 6, 2020, the Oregon Occupational Health and Safety Administration (“OR-OSHA”) published final temporary rules for workplace safety protections specific to COVID-19. The text of the final...
View ArticleOR-OSHA Publishes Model Infection Control Policy Required by New COVID- 19 Rules
On November 6, 2020, the Oregon Occupational Health and Safety Administration (“OR-OSHA”) published final temporary rules for workplace safety protections specific to COVID-19. Our alert about the new...
View ArticleOregon Orders a Statewide “Freeze” Due to COVID-19 Surge, Closing Some...
On November 13, 2020, after concluding that the previously proposed two-week “pause” did not go far enough, Governor Kate Brown announced a two-week statewide “freeze” aimed at slowing the rapid spread...
View ArticleOregon Issues New COVID-19 Guidance for Employers, Including Updated Face...
On the same day that Oregon’s statewide “freeze” went into effect, which we blogged about here, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) issued new face covering guidance and new guidance for employers. That...
View ArticleCalifornia Imposes More Stringent Requirements on Employers Relating to COVID-19
On November 20, 2020, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standard Board adopted temporary regulations regarding measures that employers must undertake in order to prevent the spread of...
View ArticleThe COVID-19 Vaccine Is Coming: Can Employers Require Employees to Get...
With FDA approval of a COVID-19 vaccine possibly coming this week, employers are wondering whether they can require their employees to get vaccinated as a condition of employment. For many employers,...
View ArticleOregon OSHA Issues Sample Materials for Required Employee Training and...
Oregon OSHA has just released a series of materials, including sample training materials, to help employers comply with OR-OSHA’s temporary workplace safety rules related to COVID-19. We previously...
View ArticleOregon Employment Department Posts First Draft of Proposed Paid Family...
As we’ve blogged about previously here, here, and here, in 2019, the Oregon legislature passed a paid family and medical leave (“PFML”) law which provides Oregon employees with up to 12 weeks of paid...
View ArticleComment Period For Round Two of Proposed Paid Family and Medical Leave Rules...
The Oregon Employment Department (“OED”) has posted its second set of proposed administrative rules implementing the Oregon Paid Family and Medical Leave Act (“PFMLA”). A link to the proposed rules is...
View ArticleOregon OSHA Proposes Final, Permanent COVID-19 Safety Rules for Oregon Employers
As many of you know, effective November 16, 2020, the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OR OSHA”) adopted a comprehensive set of workplace safety rules designed to address the...
View ArticleTemporary Workers in California After Sullivan, Ward, and Oman
The California Supreme Court’s 2011 decision in Sullivan v. Oracle Corp. (“Sullivan”) and its more recent decisions in Ward v. United Airlines (“Ward”) and Oman v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. (“Oman”)...
View ArticleUtah Employers’ Ability to Use Non-Competes May Be Substantially Limited
The Utah State Legislature is currently considering legislation that would significantly limit the use of non-compete agreements in Utah. Senate Bill 46 (SB 46) has passed the Senate and received a...
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