As businesses around the country weigh the pros and cons of reopening, one question looms large: Could employers be held liable if employees contract COVID-19 while...
In general, the EEOC says the ADA does not prevent employers from complying with coronavirus safety measures recommended by the Centers for Disease Control.
Accommodating essential staff during the COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge. Employers must follow federal guidance from the CDC and OSHA, as well as monitor state...
Employers have several options including telecommuting, flexible scheduling, and intermittent FMLA. The FFCRA provides emergency paid sick leave options.
Employers large enough to be covered by federal or state WARN Acts that believe layoffs or closing will be longer than six months need to send notices.
Congress wrote the Families First Coronarvirus Response Law and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act in a hurry. Now the Department of Labor and the...
If you’ve sent employees home to work and some of those employees are nonexempt, you have a problem—tracking their work hours under the Fair Labor Standards Act....
Despite pronouncements by politicians seeking to reassure an increasingly nervous public, getting workers’ compensation coverage for COVID-19, the illness caused by...
Here’s what you need to know about what you can say and do under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other laws protecting privacy.
As part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), Congress expanded the reasons for taking leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and, for the...
Employees affected by the coronavirus pandemic will be eligible for paid sick leave and many will be able to take paid FMLA leave under new legislation.
Coronavirus paid leave may soon be available to workers affected by COVID-19. Congress is set to amend the FMLA to provide limited emergency paid leave. Employers may...
Assuming the Senate doesn’t amend it, the bill will go into effect immediately after the president signs it. Here are the provisions of interest to Payroll and HR.
