This CLE course will review potential claims that employers may face as businesses address the COVID-19 world. The panel will explain the impact on workers' health and safety and employers' compliance with current state and federal law, a shifting work-from-home model, and the implications on employment law.
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been workplace shutdowns, a shift to tele-work, re-employee terminations, and layoffs/furloughs. Those are just a few of the activities employers may have to account for as COVID-19 settles in.
Future employment claims arising from out-of-work employees and other employment-related claims may include employee discrimination charges based on disability, age, and other protected classes. Employers may likely face claims under wage and hour regulations for alleged failure to pay back/past due wages related to PPP loans, as well as issues related to employee leave, accommodations, remote work, overtime, employee misclassifications, and potential violations under the FLSA salary reduction test.
Other topics will be summarily presented, including employers' concerns of employees' departure and immediate violations of restrictive covenants, worker reporting safety violations to OSHA on the non-enforcement of employers' anti-COVID-19 policies, and failing to include an anti-virus policy in the company employee handbook.
Listen as the panel shares what attorneys and their business clients can expect as well as related preventative strategies in preparing for employment litigation stemming from COVID-19.
