Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay Remember yesterday, when I told you that the House had passed a bipartisan bill that would allow businesses to voluntarily provide Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) leave in Q1 of 2021? And then the Senate approved the same measure by a 92-8 vote. And…
Image by ahmad triyawan from Pixabay The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) requires certain employers to provide their employees with paid sick leave or expanded family and medical leave for specified reasons related to COVID-19. Perhaps, you’ve heard of it. The FFCRA will expire on December 31, 2020. But,…
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Back in the Spring, I blogged here about an Atlanta man charged with wire fraud for misrepresenting to his employer that he had tested positive for COVID-19. Here are some more details from the press release: The defendant, who was employed by a Fortune 500…
Image by Aidan Howe from Pixabay So, did you vote in Jon Hyman’s Worst Employers of 2020 poll? I would have voted for the company accused of having plant managers that organized a cash buy-in, winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many employees would test positive…
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay Approximately 6 hours and 37 minutes after my blog post yesterday about “Preparing for Exceptions To Your Business’s COVID-19 Vaccine Program” went live, I received an email from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It read something like this: Dear Passive-Aggressive Employment Law Blogger: We…
Image by Shafin Al Asad Protic from Pixabay I was in The Zone yesterday. Late in the afternoon, a reader emailed me to see if I had posted an article addressing “what if” an employee refuses to receive the vaccine should your business choose to require it? Well, it just…
Wikirishiaacharya, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By most reasonable accounts, this year has been one hot mess. Fortunately, I’m blessed to work at an amazing law firm, FisherBroyles. Last week, the prestigious Financial Times announced that we had been short-listed for its “Innovative Lawyers – North America” awards, in…
Image by Erin Stone from Pixabay The Americans with Disabilities Act requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment, except when such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. In the history of ADA, I don’t know of any court…
Image by Chrystal Elizabeth from Pixabay Pretty much none of you who emailed me after yesterday’s post about state-mandated vaccines were too keen on that idea. But, speaking of COVID-19 and safety precautions, let’s see what you think about today’s twist. Have you heard about the oncology nurse in Oregon…
Image by Liz Masoner from Pixabay Enough with the “Can companies require employee COVID-19 vaccinations?” articles already! Yes, they probably can, subject to disability and religious accommodations. But, what if, instead of an employer mandating vaccinations, an entire state did so for nearly all of its residents? No, I wasn’t…