Earlier today, my colleagues and I gave a webinar on mandatory vaccination policies. It’s almost like the President was listening. This afternoon, President Biden announced that the Department of Labor, and specifically, OSHA will be issuing a new rule that will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before…

As the Delta variant continues make its presence known, more employers are continuing to explore mandatory vaccination policies for their staff.  This comes on the heels of Governor Lamont’s executive order that requires teachers and others to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly testing. My colleagues and I have been fielding questions on a daily basis.  Can we mandate vaccination for employees? (Yes) Are there exceptions? (Yes.) The questions have gotten more nuanced,…

So yesterday’s post was about being a Miami Hurricane. Today’s? A real-life hurricane/tropical storm (Henri) is making it’s way to Southern New England. It’s impact here in Connecticut is still very much up in the air as of midday Friday but for employers, this is still another challenge to have to manage. Thankfully (or not, as some of you remember), we’ve had experience in this area before and so rather than write something entirely new,…

Tis the season for dropping kids off at college.  My family is no exception.  We recently visited Miami — Coral Gables to be exact — to drop my daughter off for her first year as a Hurricane.  It’s exciting and exhausting. Add a out-of-control pandemic in Florida, and it’s downright stressful. (But who would’ve thought though that we might be dealing with a Hurricane in New England before Miami?!) Around campus at the U, masks…

Over the last few weeks, I rediscovered the “draft” folder of the back end of my blog. By last count, I had nearly twenty posts that I started and then didn’t finish for one reason or the other. Some posts have just a title and maybe a line or two; a few were basically finished.  Some are pre-pandemic but there are quite a few from the pandemic itself giving a window back to what I…

Earlier this month, I talked about how the Delta variant could start making more of an impact in this area as it had “already shown itself to be far more contagious than prior strains”.  Optimistically, I said that employers probably had some time (maybe two months) to figure out their next steps. That window of opportunity seems to be closing. Fast. Reports from both The Washington Post and The New York Times from this evening…