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CRS Legal Sidebar – COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements: Potential Constraints on Employer Mandates Under Federal Law, February 10, 2021: “The COVID-19 pandemic has forced unprecedented workplace changes and raised a host of legal issues. Employers may struggle with how to protect workers from infection, avoid disruptions that may result from sick leave and employee quarantines, and …
Washington Post: “Here are…recommendations for how to improve comfort while ensuring masks are worn properly and consistently…”
Washington Post – “…urging double masks in some cases CDC also found that improving the fit of a single surgical mask boosted protection from potentially infectious aerosols. Federal health officials on Wednesday urged Americans to consider wearing two masks as one of several strategies to better protect themselves against the threat of more contagious variants …
Littler COVID-19 Vaccine Employer Survey Report February 2021: “This report summarizes and analyzes data gathered from more than 1,800 in-house lawyers, HR professionals and C-suite executives. The survey gauged employers’ key concerns, plans and strategies related to COVID-19 vaccination among their workforces…”
Forbes: “It’s a tough time to be a job seeker. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. economy has lost nearly 10 million jobs and the unemployment rate has reached 6.3%. But the companies featured on our list of America’s Best Large Employers are trying hard to attract and retain top talent—many while …
Brown School of Public Health and Microsoft AI for Health Vaccination Tracker Provides Data on U.S. Vaccine Distribution – “A new dashboard launched [February 5, 2021] by the Brown School of Public Health and Microsoft AI for Health allows users to track state-by-state progress in reaching the goal set by President Joe Biden to distribute …
24/7 Wall St – “U.S. gun sales in January surged 60% to 4,137,480. This makes it the largest single month since figures started to be recorded in 1998. The rise is part of a trend. Gun sales in the United States rose 40% last year to 39,695,315. The figure also represents the high water mark …
CRS Legal Sidebar –Mask Mandate: Does the Federal Aviation Administration Have Authority to Require Masks on Flights?, February 8, 2021: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cautions that although air circulation and filtration systems in passenger aircraft help reduce the spread of most viruses, sitting within six feet of others on flights may …
CRS Insight – COVID-19 Vaccine Doses: Selected Data Sources on Allocation, Distribution, and Administration – February 8, 2021: “The selected sources below can help congressional staff track the progress of the U.S. COVID-19 vaccination campaign at the national, state, and local levels. Sources were selected for having commonly cited and frequently requested data. This is …
CRS report – The Federal Reserve’s Response to COVID-19: Policy Issues, Updated February 8, 2021: “The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused widespread disruptions to the economy. The Federal Reserve (Fed) took multiple policy actions in response to the crisis, and Congress took the unprecedented step of providing up to $500 billion to the …
Macfarlane, Katherine, Disability Without Documentation (February 7, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3781221 “Disability exists regardless of whether a doctor has confirmed its existence. Yet in the American workplace, employees are not disabled, or entitled to reasonable accommodations, until a doctor says so. This Article challenges the assumption that requests for reasonable accommodations must be supported …
CNET – “…In a video, Amanda Gorman delivered an ode to hard-working Americans who have persevered through the pandemic. She told the stories of James Martin (a warrior who “still shares his home with at-risk”), Trimaine Davis (an educator) and Suzie Dorner (an ICU nurse manager). “They’ve taken the lead, exceeding all expectations and limitations, …
