Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Court Upholds Mcmaster University’s COVID Exemption Request Process – Human Rights

June 29, 2022 admin No Comments

29 June 2022 Borden Ladner Gervais LLP To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. What you need to know In Michalski v. McMaster Universitythe Ontario Divisional Court dismissed an application for judicial review of four McMaster University decisions regarding creed-based exemption requests from its…

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California Department Of Public Health Issues COVID-19 Guidance On Expanded Definition Of ‘Close Contact’ – Health & Safety

June 28, 2022 admin No Comments

28 June 2022 Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On June 20, 2022, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued COVID-19 guidance, titled “Isolation and Quarantine Q&A,” that offers insight into the recent change to the definition…

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COVID Made Us Smarter – Operational Impacts and Strategy

June 24, 2022 admin No Comments

When COVID arrived more than two years ago, it forced many companies to fast-track process changes, rethink staffing and supply chain strategies, and look at their customers in new ways. The shock of remote work, rising inflation, and expanded reliance on technology – to name a few of the transformations – has been exhausting for…

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Arbitrator Finds Grievor Was Prima Facie Discriminated Against When Employer Denied Her Requested Exemption To The COVID-19 Vaccine – Employment and Workforce Wellbeing

June 22, 2022 admin No Comments

In Public Health Sudbury & Districts v. Ontario Nurses’ AssociationArbitrator Robert Herman accepted that an employee may be entitled to an exemption from an employer’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy on the basis of creed where they held a sincere belief that the relationship between the COVID-19 vaccines and fetal cell lines was contrary to their…

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Covid-19 Shows Why Retail Companies Need Physical Stores In China – Corporate And Company Law

June 22, 2022 admin No Comments

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. With billions of dollars of luxury spend trapped in China, retailers that don’t have physical stores in the mainland have been missing out on the world’s most lucrative market, writes Tom Pattinson, Chief Editor at China-Britain Business Council (CBBC). Shoppers…

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Family Business Planning & COVID-19 – Corporate and Company Law

June 14, 2022 admin No Comments

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused considerable uncertainty across the business landscape. Depending on the sector, a number of businesses have been in survival mode, hunkering down and waiting for conditions to improve. The survival of those who managed to operate…

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Social distancing in the legal profession – should it stay or go? – Operational Impacts and Strategy

June 12, 2022 admin No Comments

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. For better or worse the COVID-19 Pandemic has changed our everyday lives including for the legal profession and how we practice the law today. The introduction of COVID-19 measures including, social distancing, isolation & quarantine, physical distancing and border closures,…

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Remote Working In The Netherlands – Challenges And Limitations – Health & Safety

June 8, 2022 admin No Comments

As a result of the sudden and unprecedented lockdown at the beginning of 2020 in one country after the other, most employees had to rush home and work from there. In the Netherlands a complete lockdown started mid-March 2020, so we have now been working remotely for over 1.5 years. The concern of most employers…

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