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March 03, 2021

Ohio Legislature Drops Multi-Billion Dollar COVID Relief Plan

The Ohio Legislature dropped a multi-billion dollar COVID relief plan on Tuesday afternoon intended to improve public health and provide support to entities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. The $2.15 billion proposal is part of the Stateh...

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March 02, 2021

U.S. House Passes LGBTQ Civil Rights Bill

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill last week known as the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes.  Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court held Tit...

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March 02, 2021

Department of Labor Will Provide Additional Benefits for Those Who Refuse ‘Unsafe’ Work

On February 25, 2021, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued guidance in the form of a Program Letter based upon President Biden’s recent directive to ensure unemployment benefits are available to people who refuse to work because of COVID-19 safety co...

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March 02, 2021

DOL’s Wage and Hour Division Gearing Up to Focus on Contractor Wage Standards

In response to President Biden’s soon to be rolled out infrastructure and jobs package, which is set to increase federally funded construction and service projects developed by private companies, the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division is shifting its focus...

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March 02, 2021

President Biden’s Executive Orders: Impact on Employee Benefits and Healthcare

In the opening days of his administration, President Biden has signed a flurry of Executive Orders impacting multiple sectors of the U.S. economy. This article summarizes the Orders that impact employee benefits and healthcare and what those Orders m...

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March 02, 2021

Could There Be Changes to ERISA Fiduciary Requirements Under the Biden Administration?

President Biden nominated Marty Walsh, Mayor of Boston, as Secretary of Labor, and as his nomination remains pending, questions arise on what changes will be made regarding ERISA fiduciary rules that were established under the Trump Administration....

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March 2021

Audit Alley: Misconceptions Plague Use of Locum Tenens

Shareholder Ericka Adler discusses the most common errors and misconceptions when it comes to using a “locum tenens,” or a physician who stands in for another due to the absence of the latter physician. Read the full article by clicking View PDF belo...

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February 25, 2021

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: Is Your Practice's Marketing HIPAA Compliant?

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot® is a podcast and YouTube channel for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry. Healthcare practices know they need to be HIPAA compliant, but very few...

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February 24, 2021

Federal Government Makes Unexpected Announcement: States Must Administer Statewide Assessments in 2020-2021 School Year

Given the havoc that COVID-19 has wreaked on our educational system, should schools be mandated to administer statewide summative assessments during the 2020-2021 school year?  Nationwide, state legislatures have invited testimony, debated possibl...

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February 23, 2021

OSHA’s Virus Emergency Rule – Unintended Consequences?

Shortly after his inauguration, President Biden directed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to consider an Emergency Temporary Standard to address issues relative to the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the workplace. For employe...

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February 23, 2021

NLRB Challenges Brought on by Termination of GC Robb

In response to President Biden’s bold decision to terminate former General Counsel Peter Robb in January, employers have begun to raise legal challenges regarding the Biden Administration’s authority to oust Peter Robb. At the heart of the issue is t...

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February 23, 2021

Biden Administration Repeals Industry-Led Apprenticeship Program Established by Trump Administration

This past week, President Biden issued an Executive Order to reverse a 2017 Executive Order signed by former President Trump that established the industry-led apprenticeship program—a program that sought to minimize the federal government’s role in c...

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February 23, 2021

Congressional Democrats Renew Efforts to Pass Equality Act

Against the backdrop of the 2020 United States Supreme Court case of Bostock v. Clayton County, and with a Democratic president and majority in both houses of Congress, the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives has again introduced the...

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February 18, 2021

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: Practice Growth Strategies for 2021

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot® is a podcast and YouTube channel for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry. In this episode, Roetzel attorneys Ericka Adler and David Hochman along...

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February 16, 2021

NLRB Relaxes Trump-Era Financial Disclosure Requirements for Unions

Last week, the NLRB’s General Counsel rolled back Trump-era financial disclosure requirements for unions. Even without a complaint, unions were required to explain fees charged to nonmembers. Now, beyond routine financial reporting, unions are only r...

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February 16, 2021

COVID Relief Package Seeks to Expand the Affordable Care Act

On February 8, 2021, House Democrats revealed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which in part would increase the ACA’s financial assistance for two years, in an effort to make premiums more affordable for enrollees. Specifically, in what would...

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February 16, 2021

An Unusual Letter Regarding Obamacare to the U.S. Supreme Court

On February 10, 2021, Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler penned a two-page letter to the U.S. Supreme Court setting forth the Biden Administration’s position regarding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. ...

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February 16, 2021

DOL to Propose Roll Back of Trump-Era Religious Contractor Exemption Rule

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) intends to propose a roll back of the Trump-era religious contractor exemption rule that expanded the defenses religious federal contractors can raise against empl...

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February 15, 2021

CDC Publishes New Guidance for the Reopening of Schools to In-person Learning

On Friday, February 12, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released additional guidance addressing recommended practices in the reopening of schools, titled Operational Strategy for K-12 Schools through Phased Mitigation (“Operation...

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February 15, 2021

Ohio’s New Limited Liability Company Act – Revised Code Section 1706

The Ohio General Assembly recently passed a new Ohio Limited Liability Company (“LLC”) Act to replace the original LLC Act passed in 1994. Formally known as the “Enact Ohio Revised Limited Liability Company Act” (the “Act”), the Act was signed into l...