VIDEO: What is the Impact of COVID-19 on Florida’s Workers’ Compensation?
Our one-day Regional Compliance and Ethics Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more
The coronavirus pandemic has created myriad grey areas and confusion for even the most agile and adaptive employers. Business owners and managers attempting to adapt to the “new normal” face daily questions and concerns about...more
In an effort to keep their employees, customers, clients, and others safe, businesses are considering whether to require their employees to submit to testing for COVID-19 or antibodies. Testing can play a crucial role in...more
On June 26, 2020, five regions (Central New York, Finger Lakes, Mohawk Valley, North Country, and Southern Tier) in New York are scheduled to begin Phase 4 of the "NY Forward" reopening plan....more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its technical assistance guidance for employers. The new guidance explains that antibody tests cannot be required from employees to re-enter the workplace, addresses...more
In its newest COVID-19 guidance, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) explains that employers may not require employees to take an antibody test before returning to the workplace. Specifically, the guidance...more
As businesses prepare to re-open, many employers will be concerned about the risk of workplace transmission of the COVID-19 disease. Testing employees before allowing them to enter the workplace is one preventative measure...more
As employers look to bring their workforces back to the workplace, they face a range of new guidance, regulations, statutes and orders issued by federal, state and local governments and agencies. Employers will need to assess...more
On April 23, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued new guidance clarifying that employers may conduct mandatory testing of employees for COVID-19 before they enter the workplace so long as the...more
As we move into the second quarter of 2020, governments around the country are analyzing how to best open up their economies. Part of this will include people returning to work, restaurants, retail establishments, and other...more
The EEOC continues to update its pandemic preparedness guidance regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, and other Equal Employment Opportunity laws in the wake of COVID-19. The guidance...more
As states and localities begin to relax shelter-in-place requirements and allow businesses to reopen, the coronavirus pandemic presents new challenges for employers. In addition to operational and logistical questions...more
States and cities around the country, hopeful that the worst of COVID-19 will soon pass, are discussing reopening businesses, public spaces, and schools. While privacy issues may not be the first thing that comes to mind in...more
On April 23, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published new guidance permitting employers to test employees for COVID-19 before allowing them to enter the workplace. Under the Americans with...more
On April 23, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published guidance in response to this question and the agency’s answer was yes—“an employer may choose to administer COVID-19 testing to employees before...more
On April 23, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officially stated that employers may administer a COVID-19 test – the test used to detect the presence of the COVID-19 virus – to employees to determine if they...more
In this video, Chartwell Law Florida workers’ compensation attorneys Amanda Mitteer Bartley and Tom Marchese discuss how COVID-19 is affecting Florida workers’ compensation claims, especially given Governor Ron Desantis’...more
As many employers have one month of shelter in place behind them, they are now planning for the future. Please join us for a complimentary webinar focused on key issues facing employers as they prepare for the summer months...more
In a welcome development for U.S. employers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued an updated announcement and updated guidance for employers about what they can and cannot ask their employees as...more
On March 19, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission updated its 2009 pandemic preparedness guidance: Pandemic Preparedness in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act. It includes the following...more
As you know by now, COVID-19 is changing things on a daily, if not hourly or minute by minute basis. In reviewing this advice, you must understand that guidance will change as the COVID-19 pandemic evolves. As such, employers...more
The Senate passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act today, an economic stimulus plan aimed at addressing the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on Americans and introducing paid sick leave and an expanded family and...more
As Canada's federal and provincial health authorities address the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), various questions have arisen regarding the role that organizations should play in balancing the privacy of its employees,...more
In this episode, Akin Gump labor and employment partner Richard Rabin and associate Grace O’Donnell discuss what you need to know about coronavirus’ impact on the workplace and employees. Among the topics covered: -...more
In an effort to boost the government’s response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act Saturday, March 14th, an economic stimulus plan aimed...more