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Comprehensive FAQs For Employers on Hurricanes and Other Workplace Disasters: 2024 Edition

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This detailed set of Frequently Asked Questions, fully updated for 2024, addresses the workplace-related issues facing employers in the wake of hurricane-related disasters. In addition to legal obligations you need to...more

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Comprehensive FAQs For Employers on Hurricanes and Other Workplace Disasters: 2023 Edition

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This detailed set of Frequently Asked Questions, fully updated for 2023, addresses the workplace-related issues facing employers in the wake of hurricane-related disasters. In addition to legal obligations you need to...more

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Expiration Dates – Evaluating Your Current COVID Policies

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Many things have an expiration date - cheese, meat, medicine, certain fashion choices, but some things linger well past their “use by” date – like three-week-old takeout in the very back corner of your refrigerator. During...more

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Comprehensive FAQs For Employers on Hurricanes and Other Workplace Disasters: 2022 Edition

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This detailed set of Frequently Asked Questions, fully updated for 2022, addresses the workplace-related issues facing employers in the wake of hurricane-related disasters. In addition to legal obligations you need to...more

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Employers Can Require COVID-19 Vaccines

This article discusses whether employers can require COVID-19 vaccinations or tests or require that employees wear masks. I’m not a scientist or physician, so this article doesn’t discuss whether vaccinations or masks prevent...more

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May 2021: The Top 18 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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#WorkforceWednesday: Congress Passes Relief Bill, EEOC's Vaccine Guidance, Return to Work Delayed - Employment Law This Week®

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Welcome to #WorkforceWednesday. This week, Congress finally passes a COVID-19 relief bill as employers make longer-term plans for vaccination programs and return to work. Congress Passes Relief Bill Congress delivers a...more

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Slamming the door on 2020 and looking ahead to 2021

Join us as we count down and recap some of the big developments in 2020, impart some critical public service announcements, and share a few predictions about what 2021 may hold for employers! This podcast is made available...more

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Michigan Enacts COVID-19 Liability Shield and Employee Protection Bills

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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law several bills on October 22, 2020, including those providing a liability shield to individuals and entities that comply with COVID-19-related government directives and...more

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Comprehensive FAQs For Employers On Hurricanes And Other Workplace Disasters

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This article addresses many employment-related issues facing employers in the wake of hurricane-related disasters; consequently, in addition to federal laws, we also focus on certain state laws, especially those in the areas...more

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Tensions and Issues Rise as Employers Prepare to Call Employees Back to Work

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As states begin or prepare to lift stay-at-home orders, many businesses are gearing up, as well. However, many employees are not as sanguine, citing a host of concerns, such as a lack of protective measures, the fear of...more

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Successful Return-to-Work Strategies post-COVID-19

We know that these COVID-19 isolation orders have to end sooner or later and it’s going to be a transition for everyone. The time is now to start planning for a successful return to work strategy. DRM’s labor and employment...more

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Texas Unemployment Insurance Update: TWC Lists Valid Reasons for Refusing Work Amid COVID-19

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On Thursday, April 30, 2020, the Texas Workforce Commission issued a critical update to its unemployment insurance benefits guidelines, providing employers and unemployed workers insight into the various reasons that workers...more

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Colorado’s Safer At Home Orders Add New COVID-19 Protections For Workers

Colorado’s “Safer at Home” Executive Order and accompanying Public Health Order include new anti-discrimination provisions, new protections for employees with COVID-19, and new safety requirements for employers. ...more

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Minnesota Businesses Receive Guidance On COVID-19-Related Workplace Issues

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Amid many unanswered questions and high levels of uncertainty, the Minnesota Department of Labor published guidance clarifying certain worker protections and benefits relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. The guidance answers...more

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California Administrative Agencies Issue Guidance for Employers Regarding the Coronavirus

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California administrative agencies recently published information to guide both employers and employees on employment-related issues raised by the 2019 novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. The Division of Labor...more

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Employer FAQs for COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Virtually every employer in the United States is having to grapple with how to respond to employment-related issues as a consequence of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To assist employers, we have prepared an FAQ...more

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COVID-19: California Employer Frequently Asked Questions Updated

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1. Can I ask employees to leave the workplace and stay home if I suspect they have COVID-19? If an employee is exhibiting symptoms related to COVID-19 (i.e., cough, shortness of breath, fever) you may ask the employee to...more

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#WorkforceWednesday: COVID-19 Pandemic, Election Rules Challenged, EEOC Limits GC’s Authority - Employment Law This Week®

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It’s #WorkforceWednesday. This weekly newsletter provides you with a cost-free, convenient way to quickly browse the most significant news impacting your workforce. Watch the week’s top workforce management and employment...more

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COVID-19: Employment FAQs

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As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to present challenges to employers worldwide, we have created this frequently asked questions document to answer some of the most common questions we have been hearing from clients,...more

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COSTA RICA: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) – Employer FAQs

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Given COVID-19’s rapid spread and implications, employers are confronting difficult questions regarding how to handle safety and health rules, travel restrictions, privacy of employees’ health information, compensation, and...more

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GERMANY: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) – Employer FAQs

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The spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) across the globe remains a significant concern in the workplace. Employers are confronting difficult questions regarding how to handle safety and health rules, travel...more

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COLOMBIA: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) – Employer FAQs

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On March 11, 2020, Colombia’s Health Ministry declared that every person arriving from China, Spain, Italy and France must self-isolate for 14 days from the date of their arrival in Colombia....more

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Furloughs and Other Temporary Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19) Disruptions

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Among the many issues employers are facing in the wake of the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is the possibility of furloughs, temporary office and location closings, and short-term layoffs. A furlough involves...more

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Coronavirus (COVID-19): Belgium

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Belgium has so far been spared from coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreaks. Now that many people have returned from holidays (February 22 – March 1), however, this might change. This article provides practical guidance on...more

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