Excerpted from a GetVoiP Blog by Brynne Ramella The business landscape was one of the many elements of everyday life that was turned utterly upside down in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus forced nearly every member of the workforce...
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Excerpted from a JacksonLewis blog by Nadine Abrahams and Stephanie Adler-Paindiris On April 6, 2021, the total number of COVID-19-related employment complaints filed in U.S. courts passed the 2,000 mark. Although it took eight months to reach...
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Excerpted from a Harvard Business Review article by Christian Thoroughgood, Katina Sawyer and Jennica Webster For most of us, work is stressful in and of itself. Imagine carrying the added emotional weight of having to deny and suppress one of...
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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 Shawe Rosenthal, LLP blog by Fiona W. Ong Some disabilities may indeed prevent employees from showing up regularly for work. But according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, that could also mean the employee is...
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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 SocialPro blog by Natalie Watkins Everyone says the wrong thing from time to time. If it’s an occasional slip-up, people will usually just move on. If you’re reading this article, you’re probably finding that it’s a bigger...
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Excerpted from a Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP blog by David McManus, Michelle Silverman and Thomas Hurka Grounds for termination May an employer dismiss an employee for any reason or must there be ‘cause’? How is cause defined under the...
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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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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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Excerpted from Hall Benefits Law blog. On January 15, 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued updated guidance to its Compliance Manual on Religious Discrimination, the first significant update since 2008. In the updated...
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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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