California’s Senate Bill 657 (SB 657) is a workplace posting bill which takes effect on January 1, 2022. SB 657 addresses the electronic distribution of state required workplace postings but does not change the employers’ obligations to physically post required ...
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On Nov. 5, the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring companies with more than 100 employees to develop, implement and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, unless they adopt a policy requiring employees to ...
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Most business owners spend hours monitoring the important things in their life — things like employee payroll, inventory management, and equipment maintenance all get done because the consequences of ignoring them could be costly. Unfortunately, what many people don’t realize ...
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Federal Appeals Court Blocks OSHA's Vaccine Mandate: What Does This Mean for Employers? Citing potential “grave statutory and constitutional issues” with the mandate-or-test emergency vaccine rule unveiled by OSHA on Thursday, a federal appeals court issued an order blocking the ...
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Commercial business fires are on the rise. There were more than 110,000 non-residential building fires in 2019 – only 3.4 percent of which were caused by natural disasters.1 The remaining 96.6 percent of fires may have been preventable and often resulted ...
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FWEDA and EDA have been following President Biden’s Vaccine Mandate and its implications for your dealership. The following is guidance and things to consider awaiting the OSHA rule. President Biden directed OSHA to create an Emergency Temporary Standard. This standard, once ...
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With vehicle crashes on the rise and cost of crash-related litigation skyrocketing, many businesses are leveraging in-cab technology to help protect their drivers, operations, and bottom line. Many early adopters have achieved impressive results, such as fewer accidents, fewer claims, ...
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SB 95 adds sections 248.2 and 248.3 to the California Labor Code which, among other things, provides an additional 80 hours of COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave for full time employees working for public or private employers with more than ...
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On February 25, the California Supreme Court decided the case of Donohue v. AMN Services, LLC, an influential decision that now sets the standard at which California employers will be held to for establishing meal period policies and practices. The ...
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Last month we discussed whether employers will be able to require employees to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of returning to, or remaining in, the workplace. We noted at that time that the conditions for and lawfulness of ...
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