On April 29, 2022, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed into law the Minnesota Frontline Workers Payments Act (“The Act”) to serve as a thank you by providing bonus pay for COVID-19 frontline workers. Those who were employed for at least 120 hours in Minnesota in one or more of the eligible frontline sectors (discussed below)…

In our previous blog (Supreme Court Blocks OSHA ETS But Upholds CMS Vaccine Mandate), we updated you on the United States Supreme Court’s upholding of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (“CMS”) rule, requiring all staff for certain Medicare-certified providers to be vaccinated. Prior to this decision, the CMS rule was temporarily enforceable in…