Mar 8, 2024 | Featured, Health & Safety, Human Resources
Authors: Ariella Kupetz, Naz Afshar, and Todd B. Scherwin Private employers in California with five or more employees and all public employers in the state must provide employees with leave for reproductive-related loss under a new law that took effect this year. SB...
Oct 24, 2022 | Health & Safety, Human Resources
As we wake to the business at hand, I encourage you to take a moment to consider what you and your family will do in an earthquake: Earthquakes strike suddenly, without warning and can occur at any time of the year, day or night. They can happen anywhere — where you...
Oct 3, 2022 | Featured, Health & Safety, Human Resources
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will now expand its Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP) to include additional employers. The SVEP is based on OSHA’s inspections and focuses on “employers that have demonstrated indifference to their OSH...
Dec 20, 2021 | Featured, Health & Safety
Six weeks after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals placed a temporary hold on the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring mandated COVID vaccination or testing for employers with 100 or more employees, a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of...
Nov 5, 2021 | Featured, Health & Safety
Updated: 11/8/2021 On Saturday, November 6, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals placed a temporary hold on the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring COVID vaccination or testing for employees of employers with 100 or more employees following a petition...
Jul 12, 2021 | Health & Safety, Human Resources
Last year, Governor Newsom declared a state of emergency as wildfires and extreme heat caused rolling blackouts for the first time in nearly two decades. This year state officials announced that by August, California should have roughly 3,500 additional megawatts of...
