Employment Law News and Insights

Nearly two years after enacting the first-in-the-nation permanent COVID-19 workplace safety and health standard,1 the Virginia Safety and Health Codes Board (the "Board") has voted to rescind its COVID-19 standard. The revocation is expected to be effective on March 23, 2022. Following his inauguration in January 2022, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin made...

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The New York State Commissioner of Health's designation of COVID-19 under the Health & Essential Rights Act ("HERO Act") as an "airborne infectious disease that presents a serious risk of harm to the public health" ended on March 17, 2022. What this means: effective immediately, private-sector employers are no longer required to...

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Labor law is not at the heart of the French presidential campaign, which is rather unusual. The latest major reforms, initiated under the presidency of François Hollande and then extended by the "Marcon" ordinances of September 22, 2017, seem to lead to an exhaustion of legislative inflation in this area....

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