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
On Tuesday afternoon, Governor Lamont issued new Executive Order 12 updating the mask guidance that the state has been operating under since way back in Executive Order 7NNN on August 14, 2020 (and Executive Order 7BB on April 17, 2020 before that). The new guidance skews closer to the CDC guidance that we talked about
You remember the first “real” week of the pandemic, right? The NBA shut down. Then the schools. And then we were all shopping for toilet paper. Things were moving at light speed.
Yesterday brought back a lot of those memories and stress.
First, the CDC said that fully vaccinated individuals could drop their masks.
If you thought the new Biden White House would take it easy on the use of Executive Orders, you haven’t been paying attention. President Biden has been indicating that he would use Executive Orders liberally in the first few days to either develop policy or turn around policies that he believes should be revoked.
The
Where are the clusters of COVID-19 coming from?
That was the subject of a state report that was recently reported on by The Hartford Courant.
When a team of Connecticut officials traced 84 coronavirus clusters to their origin points, they found that the vast majority of those clusters stemmed from four places: restaurants, workplaces, homes
A few weeks ago, I did an inital post about how the new OSHA guidance on masks only served to complicate efforts for employers to comply with any such rules.
This week, my colleague Alfredo Fernandez (with only a little help from me — byline notwithstanding) posted a more thorough post on the ins and
What do you think of masks?
Strangely, it seems a loaded question of late. How masks became a political hot potato is something that historians will debate.
Yesterday, Connecticut tried out a new slogan encouraging common-sense use of masks. The new slogan? “If you have to ask, wear a mask”.
But that’s not the full
Three months ago, on January 22, 2020, when I uploaded my first coronavirus pandemic post (and being one of the first law blogs to post about it substantively), a few people asked me why I already writing about this.
In part, it was because I had been listening to Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director
Wednesday evening is the first night of Passover — one of my favorite Jewish holidays. (And, not surprisingly, not the first time I’ve written about it.)
Why? Traditionally, it is one of the few times the entire extended family gets together and celebrates with great homemade food.
Think matzo ball soup, gefilte fish, hard-boiled
Back in 2009, it was hard not to miss press coverage of the H1N1 virus. In fact, I wrote a series of posts about how employers could prepare for a possible pandemic while still complying with employment laws.
Flash forward to now, and press reports are coming out daily about a new (novel) coronavirus