Can Employers Require Employees to be Vaccinated Against COVID-19? (Coronavirus and the Law)

By R. Patrick Bolling, Thomas M. Winn III

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was approved by the FDA last Friday and distribution has already begun. Yet in a November Gallup Poll, only 58 percent of Americans said they would get a COVID-19 vaccine, up from a low of 50 percent… Read more

December 14, 2020 | COVID-19 Legal Updates | Labor & Employment

VOSH Standard Revisions

On December 10, 2020, The Virginia Occupational Safety and Health (VOSH) Program released its Revised Proposed Permanent Standard for Infectious Disease Prevention of the SAR-CoV-2 Virus that Causes COVID-19. Generally, these revisions serve to clarify previously existing requirements or reduce… Read more

December 14, 2020 | Labor & Employment | OSHA & VOSH Regulatory Compliance

Changing Times – Recent Developments Give Cannabis Businesses New Optimism

The year 2020 has been like no other in recent memory, but as the second decade of the 21st century draws to a close, recent developments at the state, federal, and international levels have given cannabis businesses new reasons to… Read more

December 11, 2020 | Cannabis Law

Does the standard Virus Exclusion in an all-risk policy cover government-ordered COVID-19 shutdowns? Judges in the EDVA disagree.

By Dustin M. Paul

When the wave of shutdown orders hit small businesses in the Spring and Summer of 2020, many owners looked at their insurance policies to see if they had insurance coverage for their business losses. Buried in the standard policy was… Read more

December 11, 2020 | Legal Alert

Virginia’s New COVID-19 Reporting Change and Online Reporting Portal

By Neil S. Lowenstein

Effective December 8, 2020, the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry has determined that employers no longer need to report single COVID-19 positive cases to the Virginia Department of Health. However, after an outbreak of two or more cases, employers… Read more

December 10, 2020 | Construction | Labor & Employment

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