4/13/2022 8:43:09 PM Pennsylvania on the path to increase threshold for tipped employees By Veronica Miclot Christopher Bouriat In November 2021, Governor Tom Wolf’s administration proposed a new regulation that will require tipped employees to earn at least $135 a...
2/9/2022 7:12:24 PM Pennsylvania businesses with COVID-19 vaccine requirements may have to provide new exemption for employees By Veronica Miclot Christopher Bouriat Pennsylvania House of Representatives members have proposed House Bill 2318, which proposes that employers must provide a “natural...
5/27/2021 10:24:49 PM Is that a smile that I see? Pennsylvania businesses adjust reopening plans as the statewide mask mandate is scheduled to be lifted By James Holt Marguerite Goglia On May 27, 2021, Pennsylvania Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam announced at a press conference that Pennsylvania’s statewide masking...
5/6/2021 5:17:16 PM Pennsylvania businesses may need to finalize reopening plans By James Holt Marguerite Goglia After more than a year of navigating the myriad orders impacting Pennsylvania businesses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wolf...
12/9/2020 1:53:53 AM Employers with Pittsburgh-based employees face new requirements to provide COVID-19-related paid sick leave By James Holt Marguerite Goglia The City of Pittsburgh is expected to enact the new Temporary COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Ordinance (the “Ordinance”), which provides...
11/25/2020 8:19:47 PM Pennsylvania employers may need to revise policies and practices within the workplace in response to new mitigation order by Governor Wolf By James Holt Marguerite Goglia On November 23, 2020, Governor Tom Wolf issued the Order of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for Mitigation, Enforcement...
9/10/2020 4:25:26 PM Pennsylvania medical marijuana use on the rise in times of COVID-19 By Jay Glunt Chalyn Galligan Marguerite Goglia Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Act (the “Act”) legalized the use of medical marijuana as of April 2016. Initially, the Act permitted...
7/21/2020 8:21:34 PM Update: Pennsylvania order mandates telework, but to what extent? By James Holt Marguerite Goglia This is an update to our July 17, 2020 article addressing the July 15, 2020 orders issued by Governor Wolf and the Pennsylvania...
7/17/2020 6:07:37 PM New Pennsylvania order mandates telework, but to what extent? By James Holt Raenn Burgo On July 15, 2020, Governor Wolf and the Pennsylvania Department of Health issued orders “directing mitigation measures” in response to a...
4/23/2020 4:41:30 PM Employers must face it: Face covering requirements growing across states and municipalities By John McDonald Michele Gehrke Hannah Sorcic Saranne Weimer +1 more... Show less As we have previously reported, several states, including New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, now require employees,...
3/24/2020 12:29:08 AM Pennsylvania issues order closing all non-life sustaining businesses By Halber Armstrong On March 19, 2020, in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf issued an order directing all...