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To Mask or Not to Mask: Virginia DOLI Board Votes to Repeal COVID Permanent Standard

On March 21, 2022, the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry (DOLI), Safety and Health Codes Board (Board) voted to revoke the Virginia Standard for Infectious Disease Prevention of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus That Causes COVID-19 (the “Permanent Standard”). The Board’s revocation of the Permanent Standard was the subject of a thirty-day written comment period that ended on March…

March 22, 2022

Business and Financial Services

HUBZone Compliance, Protests, and Affiliates

What Happens if my Employees Move Out of a HUBZone After Certification? What Happens If my Business Merges with Another Company? Once certified, a HUBZone contractor must monitor the residences of its employees to ensure compliance with the Small Business Administration (SBA)’s regulations. Because employees move – and not necessarily with the approval of their…

March 9, 2022

Employment Law

DOLI Moves to Repeal Virginia’s COVID-19 Workplace Safety Regulations

As summarized in a recent blog post about COVID-19 workplace facemask requirements, Virginia was one of the first states in the U.S. to implement comprehensive emergency temporary COVID-19 workplace safety regulations, with a permanent set of regulations (“Permanent Standard”) implemented in September 2021, by the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry’s (“DOLI”) Safety and Health…

February 24, 2022

Business and Financial Services

Becoming and Maintaining a HUBZone Certification

Updated January 31, 2024 Becoming HUBZone Certified: Background Intended to fuel small business growth in historically underutilized geographic areas, the government set a goal of awarding at least 3% of federal contract dollars to Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) certified companies that operate and employ residents of those areas each year. The program is beneficial…

February 23, 2022

Employment Law

Are Facemasks Still Required in Virginia Workplaces?

Back in July 2020, Virginia became one of the first states in the U.S. to implement comprehensive emergency temporary COVID-19 workplace safety regulations. Then, on September 8, 2021, the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry’s (“DOLI”) Safety and Health Codes Board (the “Board”) approved a permanent set of regulations governing workplace safety standards and disease…

January 28, 2022

Business and Financial Services

Franchise FAQs

What is a franchise, and how does a franchise work? A franchise is a business relationship that is created for the distribution of goods and services under a proven business model. Federal and state laws vary in the way the word “franchise” is defined, but generally a business relationship must have three distinct characteristics to be classified as a franchise. First, the franchisor gives its franchisees the right to use an established trademark or name in connection with the franchisees’…

January 24, 2022

Employment Law

Big News for Big Employers: Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Reinstates OSHA COVID Workplace Safety Standards for Large Employers

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) on-again-off-again COVID workplace safety regulations requiring businesses with 100 or more employees to mandate COVID vaccines for those employees or require face masks and weekly testing (the “ETS”) are back on, reinstated by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a decision issued on December 17, 2021.…

December 20, 2021

Employment Law

Employment Law in Focus

In Episode 14 of Employment Law in Focus, attorney Doug Taylor discusses the new amended COVID-19 workplace safety regulations that went into effect on September 8, 2021, in Virginia. Douglas Taylor is a shareholder at Bean, Kinney & Korman focusing his practice on employment law, where he has nearly 25 years of experience. For more…

September 17, 2021

Employment Law

What if Your Employee Refuses to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?

In light of recent directives from the Biden Administration, an increasing number of employers with COVID-19 vaccine mandates will be faced with the question of what to do if an employee refuses to get vaccinated. Vaccine Mandates In July 2021, President Biden announced vaccination requirements for federal government employees and called on the private sector…

September 16, 2021

Business and Financial Services

Fourth Circuit Concludes that Title IX’s Prohibition Against Discrimination on the Basis of “Sex” May Extend to Charter School Uniforms

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”) is straightforward in its prohibition: [N]o person shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination [in] any academic, extracurricular, . . or other education program or activity[.] The statute has unquestionably transformed…

August 11, 2021