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Hirschfeld Kraemer’s Dan Handman was interviewed on KTLA-5 in Los Angeles with regard to President Biden’s September 9, 2021 announcement regarding sweeping new federal vaccine mandates. President Biden’s 6-point plan includes an Executive Order requiring all federal workers, including federal contractors, to get vaccinated, with no option to test out. He also ordered the U.S….

On June 9, 2021, Dan Handman was interviewed on KTLA-TV about the Cal/OSHA Board’s abrupt withdrawal of the controversial mask rules it recently issued after an emergency four-hour meeting. “To mask or not to mask in the workplace? That was the question before a special Cal/OSHA meeting as the standards board reviewed new state guidance,”…

Hirschfeld Kraemer’s Dan Handman was quoted in the September 21, 2020 Daily Journal in an article entitled “NLRB General Counsel Highlights Anti-Employer Cases After House Subpoena.” The article discusses a memo outlining possible conflicts of interest, written by the General Counsel of the NLRB, in response to a subpoena issued by the House Committee on…

Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP’s Dan Handman was quoted in a January 21, 2020 Wall Street Journal article entitled “Uber Tests Feature Allowing Some California Drivers to Set Fares.” Handman was asked whether Uber’s new policy strengthens one of the three requirements under A.B. 5 that Uber must meet in order to avoid reclassifying drivers as employees:…

Dan Handman was quoted in an article entitled Truckers Could Be on Road to High Court in Classification Battle in the Bloomberg Law Daily Labor Report on January 13, 2020. The article discusses the employee vs. independent contractor issues posed by A.B. 5, which went into effect January 1, 2020, and industry efforts to overturn or…