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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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 for COVID-19. Continue reading
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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: Continue reading
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I was in The Zone yesterday. Continue reading
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By most reasonable accounts, this year has been one hot mess.
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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 that has concluded that an employer must accommodate an employee’s use of medical marijuana. That’s because, federally, marijuana is still an illegal drug. (It’s on the Schedule One list). But, what about accommodating someone who uses medically-prescribed synthetic marijuana to treat the symptoms of an underlying disability? Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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 just clickbaiting you with the title of this blog post. One state actually has a pending bill. Continue reading
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Last week, I wrote here about how the CDC had changed its guidance on COVID-19 close contact. As a result, lots of state and local guidance became misaligned with the federal change.
But now they’re catching up. Continue reading
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