By: Matthew L. Bunnell
As we have previously addressed in Wyatt’s Labor and Employment blog, there are significant changes taking place at the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”). Thus far, these actions are largely due to Jennifer A. Abruzzo, the Board’s General Counsel. Now, President Biden’s recent appointees to the ...
By: Laura Caty & Lee Geiger
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! This honorable Court is now in session. Starting at 10 AM this morning, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding the contentious Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). The argument lasted more than two hours. As of the ...
By: Kathie McDonald-McClure
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) changed the Medicare payment policy for COVID-19 vaccines and monoclonal antibody products effective January 1, 2022. According to the CMS MLN Connects News for January 6, 2022, providers who administer COVID-19 vaccinations or monoclonal antibody treatments ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
On January 3, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to allow individuals 12 through 15 years of age to receive a single booster dose. The EUA also shortened the time between completion of the primary vaccination and a ...
By: Mitzi D. Wyrick
The United States Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on January 7, 2022 concerning two federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The Court will hear a challenge to the enforceability of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that requires employers with 100 or ...
It’s on. It’s off. It’s on again … and this time they really mean it. Maybe. Probably possibly for sure. Clear as mud, right? Under the cover of darkness Friday night, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati lifted the “stay” on the OSHA Vaccine mandate. OSHA actually took a victory lap at midnight Friday night while opponents ...
By: Mitzi D. Wyrick
Challenges are pending to several portions of President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for employers with 100 or more employees, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) vaccine mandate for certain ...
By: Kathie McDonald-McClure
UKG, Inc., a company that provides payroll support services known as KRONOS for many U.S. companies, began notifying its customers on December 12, 2021, that the KRONOS Private Cloud (KPC) had been attacked by ransomware. The KPC products include Workforce Central, TeleStaff, Healthcare Extensions and Banking ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
On December 15, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ordered a nationwide preliminary injunction that barred enforcement of the vaccine mandate for healthcare staff of Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities be lifted for all states except the 14 plaintiff states named in the suit. The ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on December 2, 2021 that “it has suspended activities related to the implementation and enforcement” of its Interim Final Rule (IFR) requiring health care staff in Medicare-and Medicaid-certified facilities to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by ...