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Virus Mitigation Steps for Employers Amid OSHA Ramp-Up
Just over a week after President Joe Biden, by executive order, instructed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to publish revised guidance to employers on worker safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency complied on Jan. 29, with the issuance...
EEOC Says Employers May Mandate COVID-19 Vaccinations - Subject to Limitations
With one pharmaceutical company already receiving emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine, and a second drug maker apparently on the cusp of receiving authorization, employers, eager to return to normal business operations, are considering whether they c an require...
Pandemic-Related OSHA Complaints: Return to Workplaces Only Escalates the Risks
Employees coping with health-related anxieties as workplaces reopen are commonly turning to OSHA for help. Resulting legal risks for employers can take several forms. This webinar will succinctly explain those OSHA-related legal concerns and how to avoid potential claims and...
Keeping Your Plant Safe From COVID-19
If you’re a plant owner, you should be concerned about the health and safety not only of your employers but of your contractors’ workers. Bob Nichols, a partner in Bracewell’s labor and employment team, discusses why you need to be...
Labor & Employment Webinar: Have Questions? Get Answers
The volume of evolving information arising out of the coronavirus pandemic is astounding. How do employers sort through it all to know what is important for your company and role within the organization? Bracewell’s webinar aims to help. Our Labor...
EHS Self-Auditing: Effectively Utilizing Privileges to Protect Your Findings
Assessing compliance with EHS-related requirements is fundamental for industry, not only to validate compliance assurance efforts, but to help prevent, or at least minimize, enforcement exposure. At the same time, however, candid evaluations give rise to other risks in the...
USDOL’s Final Salary Regulations: Impact on Exempt Employees and the Possibility of Future Litigation
On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (“USDOL”) announced its new Final Overtime Rule . The 2019 Final Rule comes in the wake of the heavily litigated salary threshold regulations issued by the Obama Administration in 2016. The...
Federal Court Invalidates Obama Administration Overtime Exemption Rule
On August 31, 2017, Judge Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas invalidated the long-enjoined Obama Administration revised overtime regulation. The same judge previously granted a temporary, nationwide injunction blocking the revised regulation in November 2016 (our previous client alert...
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Announces EEO-1 Form Stay
On August 29, 2017, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced that it is initiating a review and immediate stay of the effectiveness of the revised EEO-1 Form pay reporting requirements. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s announcement of the...
OSHA Delays Enforcement of its New Anti-Retaliation Provisions until November 1, 2016
There have been significant developments impacting the portions of OSHA’s new work-related injury and illness rule scheduled to become effective on August 10. As our
Does Your Company Have "Reasonable" Procedures for Employee Reporting of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses Consistent with OSHA’s New Rule Effective August 10th?
OSHA’s May 12, 2016 final rule revising its recording and reporting regulations received a great deal of publicity, in large part, because of the new requirements beginning in 2017 for some employers to electronically submit on-the-job injury and illness information...
EEOC Files First Suits Against Businesses Alleging Sexual Orientation Discrimination
Previously, federal courts, for the most part, held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion and sex, does not provide a basis for challenging discrimination based upon...
OSHA Announces National "Step-Up for Safety" Campaign for Upstream Industry
On February 19, 2016, OSHA announced the 2016 Step-Up for Safety Campaign to raise awareness about hazards in the oil and gas industry. The campaign is a joint effort among OSHA, the STEPS Network, and NIOSH. Oil and gas drilling...
U.S. Department of Justice Expands Worker Endangerment Initiative
On December 17, 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates issued a memorandum to all 93 U.S. Attorneys urging federal prosecutors to work with the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resource Division (ENRD) to pursue worker-endangerment violations. The announcement culminated...
Fifth Circuit Rules Employer-Mandated Transit Time May Make Lunch Break Compensable
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, ruled Monday that security guards’ “off-the-clock” meal periods may be compensable when they were required to travel for 10 to 12 minutes from their work stations...