Baird Holm LLP is proud to announce that Hannah Fischer Frey, Mark J. Goldsmith, and Michael D. Sands have been promoted to Partners with the Firm. Read Full Press Release
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Effective December 28, 2021, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) is providing a method for healthcare workers who hold Employment Authorization Documents (“EAD”) that expire within 30 days to contact the USCIS and have a pending application for a new document expedited. The new guidance provides that if an […]
On December 14, 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) released updated guidance addressing protections under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) for workers who contract COVID-19. At the outset of the pandemic, the EEOC first issued its guidance document, “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, Rehabilitation […]
On December 27, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) announced its intention to soon issue “a final standard that will protect healthcare workers from COVID-19 hazards” in line with its earlier Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard (“Healthcare ETS”). Recall that on June 21, 2021, OSHA promulgated the Healthcare ETS […]
Baird Holm Partner Amy Erlbacher-Anderson was featured in the Marketplace Morning Report “Foreign-born nurses may be less likely to walk away from their jobs.” During her interview with Meghan McCarty Carino, Amy discusses the challenges workers are facing getting immigrant visas and the massive backlog for interviews on applications that […]