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On July 27, 2020, Virginia’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”), 16VAC25-220, went into effect after being adopted by the Department of Labor and Industry’s (DOLI) Virginia Occupational Safety and Health (VOSH) Program and the Virginia Safety and Health Codes Board.  The ETS “is designed to establish requirements for employers to control, […]

The District of Columbia Council passed the Protecting Businesses and Workers from COVID-19 Emergency Amendment Act of 2020, which temporarily mandates certain COVID-19 workplace protections for all employers with at least one employee in D.C. This law, which will remain in effect from August 13 through November 11, 2020, imposes […]

Today the Obama Administration filed an appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals of the emergency nationwide injunction granted last week by Judge Amos Mazzant. The preliminary injunction temporarily blocked the DOL’s new overtime rule regarding minimum salaries for the FLSA’s white-collar exemption. The rule was set to go into […]

In another blow to management, on July 11, 2016, a divided National Labor Relations Board issued Miller & Anderson, in which it reversed course after more than a decade to return to the rule established in the 2000 case of M.B. Sturgis, Inc., whereby employees supplied by a staffing agency […]