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With more than 23 years of litigation experience, Jennifer advises clients in medical malpractice, health care, general litigation, and bad faith matters. She has handled hundreds of cases involving general and professional negligence, insurance bad faith, products liability, premises liability, employment law, and commercial litigation.
Update on the proposed Act and what employers should consider given this new legal landscape
The Oklahoma Supreme Court recently broke new ground on the Burk public policy tort claim. Burk wrongful discharge claims may now be based on allegations that an employer wrongfully terminated an employee for opposing an employer’s violation of an executive order issued by the Governor.
Less than a month ago, CMS issued its Interim Final Rule, which requires all staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19. But, as with OSHA's ETS, litigation challenging the CMS Rule ramped up over the last month. That litigation came to a head this week with two federal district court rulings.
We have prepared an OSHA ETS-compliant policy and documents that can be customized for your business so employers can be prepared to successfully and quickly implement a policy. Employers who proactively use GableGotwals' compliance package will alleviate risk and prevent last-minute scrambling if the uncertainty is resolved in favor of the OSHA ETS.
CMS issued an emergency regulation requiring COVID-19 vaccination of staff at Medicare- and Medicaid-certified healthcare facilities.
On October 29, 2021, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) published another final rule regarding wages for tipped employees.
