Coronavirus (COVID-19)

The recent imposition of tariffs by the U.S. government has introduced significant complexities in contractual performance and risk allocation.

In last year's edition of EnforceMintz, we predicted that 2024 would bring an increase in False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement activity related to COVID-19 pandemic fraud.

Although COVID-19 emerged in the United States for the first time in March 2020 and hit the first of many "peaks" almost exactly four years ago, the effects of the pandemic are still being felt today...

As we previously reported, New York's COVID-19 Sick Leave Law (amending N.Y. Lab. L. §196-b) will expire on July 31, 2025.

The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of a Title VII lawsuit brought by an employee who objected to his employer's COVID-19 policy.

On July 1, 2025, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued several proposed rules, including two that impact employers' recordkeeping and reporting obligations.

In a May 4, 2023, announcement, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) granted employers through August 30, 2023, to complete the physical document inspection required for Form I-9...

Temporary I-9 flexibilities program allowing remote I-9 inspection ends July 31, 2023.

With less than two weeks left until the end of the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), which is set to expire on May 11, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...

On April 10, a group of Democratic state attorneys general, along with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, sued the Trump Administration over access to previously-approved funding to address...

In August 2021, the U.S. Secretary of Defense mandated that all service members receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The policy was later rescinded in January 2023, but not before thousands of service members were separated...

This order makes reinstatement available to all members of the military who were discharged solely for refusing to comply the Department of Defense's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, as administered on August 24, 2021, and revoked January 10, 2023.