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The guiding principle for employers to follow when asking or talking about individual employees’ health concerns is “data minimization.” In other words, employers should collect and share employee health information only to the extent necessary to protect the workforce from COVID-19 exposure and should keep those records confidential.

An increasing number of employers have made their workforces remote in response to the developing COVID-19 situation…

A growing number of public figures, including CEOs, have tested positive for COVID-19. Since the duties and responsibilities of a CEO often include being the face of the company and meeting with other executives who are, in turn, the faces of their companies, the potential for exposure is obvious.

This week, OSHA released new guidance for employers, giving recommendations on how to reduce worker exposure to coronavirus in the face of the COVID-19 situation – a situation that the World Health Organization has now labeled a “pandemic.”

Although the risk of exposure to the Coronavirus (or “Covid-19”) within most U.S. workplaces is uncertain, employers should nonetheless evaluate their emergency preparedness plans in response to the potential threat.

Recordkeeping is not a sexy issue to write about, but I would be remiss if I did not periodically remind our readers about their recordkeeping obligations under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA).

The general duty clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act requires employers to provide a workplace which is “free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employee.”

In our last installment on state regulation of employers’ firearms policies, found here , we discussed the legal boundaries that Texas imposes on firearms policies generally. Today, we turn towards…

For three years, Texas law has allowed folks with a concealed license the right to carry their firearms openly. Texas continues to expand the rights of gun owners.

On Thursday, Vinson & Elkins will put on its Ninth Annual Fracking Symposium . This is always a popular seminar where professionals discuss evolving industry practices in the United States…

Most good health and safety managers will tell you that “All accidents are preventable.” As a lawyer who often defends employers in OSHA proceedings, I completely agree. And yet, accidents still…

If you’ve never heard of a heat policy, you might not think that it could be relevant to your company. But with the rapidly evolving world of human rights law, you may need to think again if your…