Category Archives: Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)

Supreme Court Blocks OSHA Vaccinate-or-Test Rule, Allows Healthcare Worker Mandate

By Rachel D. Gebaide, Morey Raiskin & Abood Shebib Large Employer Vaccine-or-Test Mandate In a 6-3 decision, the United States Supreme Court today issued a temporary stay of the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring…

OSHA ETS Remains Stayed as Litigation Extends Beyond 1st Deadline

OSHA’s vaccinate or test mandate for large employers (the “ETS”) is set to remain stayed through the first deadline, today, December 6, 2021.  That first deadline would have required employers with 100 or more employees…

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal Selected to Hear Consolidated Challenges to OSHA “Vaccinate or Test” Private Employer Mandate

This afternoon, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation announced it had randomly selected the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal to hear the consolidated challenges to the OSHA emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) requiring large private employers…

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Orders OSHA to Stop Steps to Implement or Enforce “Vaccinate or Test” Mandate and Issues New Stay Pending Judicial Review of Motions for Permanent Injunction

This afternoon, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its second stay against OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) requiring large private employers to “vaccinate or test” their employees (the ETS is summarized here). The ETS,…

OSHA’s Vaccination & Testing Standard Officially Published Today, November 5, 2021

As you’ve likely heard by now, OSHA fulfilled the task assigned to it by the Biden Administration by publishing a new emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) targeted at private employers with 100 or more employees. We…

Texas Executive Order Bans COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement for Private Employers

Late in the afternoon on October 11, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued Executive Order GA 40 prohibiting “any entity,” including private employers, from requiring any individual, whether an employee or a consumer,  receive a…

Looking Ahead: President Trump, the Overtime Rule, and Other Impacts on the Employment Landscape

November 10, 2016 By: Rachel D. Gebaide The U.S. Department of Labor’s new overtime rule will take effect December 1st unless a federal judge in Texas issues an injunction after a hearing next week in…

OSHA Proposes Rule That Would Require Employers to Submit Workplace Injury Information to the Public

By:  TIMOTHY C. HAUGHEE NOVEMBER 26, 2013 Earlier this month, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) announced a proposed rule that would require employers to electronically submit to OSHA records of workplace injuries and…