Webinar: COVID-19 Workplace Safety after the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard

This session will work through the current status of safety requirements and recommendations for COVID-19 and vaccination requirements at the federal, state and local levels, and discuss considerations and risks for workplaces implementing COVID-19 protocols. This session will also discuss the types of cases being brought nationally against employers, the potential impacts and lessons learned from those cases, and discuss the practical considerations when implementing COVID-19-related requirements.

Presented by:
Civil Rights Law Section
Health Law Section
Labor & Employment Law Section
The Federal Judicial Clerk Committee

About the Presenters

Brittany Barrientos, Partner, Stinson LLP

Brittany’s deep understanding of environmental, health and safety laws across the regulatory, transactional and litigation spectrums allows her to find well-rounded and practical solutions to complex issues.

Alisa Nickel Ehrlich, Partner, Stinson LLP

Alisa has a pragmatic approach to helping clients with employment, contract, and immigration compliance issues, as well as in handling commercial and employment disputes.

Honorable John Tunheim, Chief Judge, United States District Court, District of Minnesota 

The Honorable John R. Tunheim has served for over 25 years as United States District Judge in the District of Minnesota and has served as Chief Judge since 2015. From 1994-1998, Judge Tunheim served as Chair of the U.S. Assassination Records Review Board, an independent federal agency empowered to declassify the remaining secret records of the assassination of President Kennedy. Before his appointment as a federal judge, he served as Minnesota’s Chief Deputy Attorney General and Solicitor General, and in the U.S. Senate, as Staff Assistant to U.S. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. He has devoted much of his judicial career to helping develop the rule of law in new democracies, including drafting the Kosovo Constitution and advising over 40 countries on counter-terrorism measures and judicial independence. He is a graduate of Concordia College and the University of Minnesota Law School, where he served as President of the Law Review. He was Chair of the U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management from 2005 to 2009 and currently serves on the U.S. Judicial Conference as the 8th Circuit District Judge Representative.  He has served as Chair of the ABA’s Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division and the National Conference of Federal Trial Judges.  He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Criminal Justice Section and has served on the Standing Committee on Election Law and on the Board of the Rule of Law Initiative.

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• Nonmember: $75

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CLE

CLE: 1 CLE Credit (60min state) / 1.2 CLE Credit (50min state)

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