ANALYSIS: Even Without Mandates, Employers Face Covid Challenges

In a webinar I recently moderated with legal experts on the employer impacts of Covid-19, we discussed important pandemic-related challenges that employers face, even though OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (ETS) is gone and Covid cases are plunging. Anti-discrimination and state laws, the return to office, employee civility, and the forthcoming permanent OSHA vaccine-or-test rule all remain important considerations for employers as they move forward.

The ETS, issued in November 2021, would have required employers with 100 or more employees to mandate Covid vaccines or weekly testing, but it was withdrawn in January 2022 after being blocked by the U.S. ...