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Late on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, a federal district court issued an order halting Center for Medicare and Medicaid’s (“CMS”) regulations that would require all covered staff to be vaccinated by December 5, 2021. At the moment, this order applies throughout the nation, including in Florida. This this order may…

A federal judge has rejected Florida’s request to temporarily halt the implementation of the mandatory vaccination rules implemented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Accordingly, covered health care employers should be evaluating what to do in light of the conflict between Florida’s new vaccination law and the CMS…

In what might be the biggest news yet during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal agencies issued several mandates in the last couple of weeks requiring a variety of employers to develop and put in place mandatory vaccination programs by early December. At the same time, the State of Florida has not…

This is a reminder to employers that, as a result of Amendment 2, passed in November 2020 by a constitutional referendum, effective September 30, 2021, Florida’s minimum wage will rise from $8.65 to $10.00 an hour, and it will increase $1.00 every year until it reaches $15.00 per hour on…

The EEOC has announced that it once again pushed back the deadline for covered employers to submit and certify their 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection. The new deadline is August 23, 2021.

The EEO-1 Component 1 report is a mandatory annual data collection that focuses on demographic workforce data, including data by race/ethnicity, sex, and job categories.