Publications

Along with President Biden’s September 9th announcement that he directed OSHA to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring vaccinations for all employers with over 100 employees, he also announced that his administration will require COVID-19 vaccination of staff within all Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities.  To carry out this requirement, […]

Late afternoon on September 9, 2021, President Biden announced that employers with 100 or more employees that are subject to the jurisdiction of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) will need to require their employees to either be vaccinated or show a negative COVID-19 test result on a weekly […]

On March 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a “flexibility policy” that allowed some employers to remotely inspect and retain copies of documents for the Form I-9 process on a temporary basis as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.  […]

Health care employers across the United States that have not yet mandated the COVID-19 vaccine for their employees are currently considering it.  Undoubtedly, whether to mandate vaccinations is now one of the most pressing employment law issues facing the health care industry. Some health care employers have the “luxury” of […]

These days, both nurse practitioners and physician assistants practice regularly in hospital emergency departments.  In many critical access hospitals they cover primary call for the ED, with a supervising physician taking secondary call.  With increased reliance upon contracted telemedicine to cover the ED in a back-up fashion, questions have arisen […]