HR Compliance

Last month, California enacted legislation providing greater authority to Cal/OSHA in terms of COVID-19 mitigation efforts. Husch Blackwell’s Donna Pryor highlights AB 685 and explains what it will mean for employers. On September 17, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed...

Businesses are keen to know whether they can require employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Husch Blackwell’s Julianne Story and Sydney Buckley discuss complications that would arise with a vaccination mandate. With health care providers worldwide racing to get COVID-19...

The rise in remote work due to COVID-19 has both led to increased drug use and changed the drug testing landscape. Health Street CEO Jared Rosenthal discusses what businesses and employees should know about employment drug testing amid this altered...

The IRS will likely require employers to separately report FFCRA family and sick leave payments on W-2 forms. Depending on how employers keep those records, this may be a major record-keeping issue. Pete Isberg explains. The global crisis initiated by...

Shutdowns caused by COVID-19 have resulted in remote work arrangements, as well as changes to hours worked, pay and duties for many. Businesses looking to “make whole” employees whose pay was reduced need to make sure this good deed doesn’t...

Poyner Spruill’s Robert Meyer answers common questions employees have regarding COVID-19-related compliance, including covering guidance from the EEOC to prevent violations of ADA, EEO and other regulations. Earlier this year, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published compliance guidance...

Businesses particularly affected by COVID-19 are also the ones most commonly exposed to disability discrimination lawsuits under the ADA. John Kelly, a partner at Wilson Elser, discusses the “new normal” litigators may see in how claims brought under the ADA...

After issuing guidance in April that leaned against recording most COVID-19 cases, OSHA has now walked back that guidance somewhat. Husch Blackwell’s Avi Meyerstein discusses the new guidance on recording your employee’s case of COVID-19. As COVID-19 spread widely through...

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, current events are reminiscent of the financial challenges of 2008. Those challenges imparted some important lessons for employers. Elliot Dinkin considers what employers did in 2008 that worked well and how they can apply takeaways to...

Organizations are confronting challenges they have never faced before as the recovery from COVID-19 begins. Squire Patton Boggs’ Laura Lawless and Dan Pasternak share a compliance checklist to guide businesses as operations resume. As states begin the process of gradually...

Now that the coronavirus is considered a pandemic, employers face a multitude of concerns when it comes to COVID-19, including compensation issues. Cowden Associates’ Elliot Dinkin addresses several of the key questions employers are asking during this crisis. The coronavirus...

Employers ought to consider the process of how they interact with their disabled employees. As Fisher Phillips’ Devin Rauchwerger writes, good-faith exchanges and an open description of the job’s essential functions can go a long way toward decreasing employers’ risk...