Check out some of the recent updates in COVID-19 regulations, discrimination policies, minimum wage and more!

ARIZONA

The State of Arizona will require health-care employers to develop a written workplace violence prevention plan, specifically tailored toward conditions and hazards of the employees’ sites and patient-specific risk factors. Arizona S.B. 1311 requires that the plan include reporting, incident response and post-incident investigation measures.

CALIFORNIA

• The California Department of Public Health recently issued an Isolation and Quarantine Q&A guidance to explain the changes made to the definition of “close contact” on June 8, 2022. The guidance explains that the updated definition differs from that of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and how entities may prioritize their response to close contact reports.
• The California Department of Public Health updated its COVID-19 checklist for employers as related to preventing and responding to COVID-19 in the workplace. The update references A.B. 685 and the Cal/OHSA Covid-19 Emergency Temporary Standards, and incorporates changes to department guidance, face masks regulation, isolation and quarantine and vaccination requirements.
• Recently Proposition G was passed by voters in San Francisco. Effective October 1, 2022, employers with 100+ employees worldwide, who employ at least one employee in San Francisco, must provide such employees with paid public health emergency leave. Eligible employees are...

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