Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, showing up to work with a temperature or cough is no longer a sign of dedication. In fact, such behavior could kill your staff and customers. American work culture has long taken pride in...
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Excerpted from a Thompson Coburn LLP blog by Lori W. Jones The significant impact of COVID-19 on employees includes not only the many risks to physical health, but also the heavy toll on employee mental health. In October 2020, the Kaiser Family...
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Excerpted from a Forbes article by Caroline Castrillon The world witnessed a historic shift in the 2020 job market due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While some companies used to offer the ability to work from home as a perk, it has now become the...
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Excerpted from an SHRM Blog by Roxi Bahar Hewertson Your budget may have taken a hit, you may have had to change course, but you can—and should—still hire top talent. The business world is still finding its footing as the pandemic continues to...
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Excerpted from an Akerman, LLP blog On March 12, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a new National Emphasis Program (NEP) designed to significantly reduce worker exposure to COVID-19 by targeting industries and...
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In a surprising development on March 2, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an Executive Order lifting the mask mandate and increasing capacity of all businesses and facilities to 100%. Granted, the number of hospital patients suffering from...
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In December of 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published guidance on employer mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies. The guidance explained that with few exceptions, employers can require employees to receive the...
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With the U.S. racing towards having 75% of its residents receiving the COVID-19 vaccination by the summer, a national effort is underway to assist people to receive their immunizations. In a deadly contest against a virus that’s killed more...
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As people were literally waiting in line to receive their COVID-19 vaccine on March 2, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced an end to the mask mandate and COVID-19 operating limits in Texas. His new Executive Order will go into effect March 10...
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Excerpted from The SHRM Blog by By Indie B. Bollman, MBA, SHRM-SCP, SPHR At some point in the hopefully not too distant future, employees will start returning to work in the physical workplace instead of working remotely from their homes. Just as...
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Excerpted from an article in The Atlantic by Derek Thompson Why wouldn’t someone want a COVID-19 vaccine? Staring at the raw numbers, it doesn’t seem like a hard choice. Thousands of people are dying of COVID-19 every day. Meanwhile, out of the...
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Excerpted from The SHRM Blog by David Kovacovich Vaccines are being administered and with Spring a month away there is (finally) reason to be optimistic that a return to normal is in sight. What Will The Future Look Like? Will we return to...
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