With the start of a new year, there is no better time to take on employment law compliance.
For many companies in the construction industry, HR issues often get pushed to the back burner, sometimes due to small HR departments with limited resources, or the looming nature of construction costs and deadlines. Whatever the reason, delaying compliance can create real risks in the employment law arena.
The top employment law compliance to-do list for 2022 as a construction industry employer:
- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) and the federal contractor vaccine mandate requirements should top the list. Every construction industry employer subject to these statutes needs to anticipate and be ready for compliance. Do not be caught unprepared. As of this writing, the preliminary injunction on the Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate remains in place until at least January, based on the 11th Circuit’s recent denial of the government’s request to lift the preliminary injunction put in place by the lower court. However, the Sixth Circuit removed the nationwide injunction of the OSHA ETS requirements. The issue of the stay of the OSHA ETS is already pending before the U.S. Supreme Court and the stay of the Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate will likely make it there as well. Meanwhile, OSHA indicated it will not issue citations for noncompliance prior to January 10, 2022, and it would exercise discretion and not issue citations...
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