The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated the guidance document titled “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act and Other EEO Laws” on April 23, 2020 to address employer testing for COVID-19 in the workplace. The EEOC’s guidance document is a series of technical questions and answers geared
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An Employer’s Guide to Managing the Coronavirus in the Workplace
By Ursula Siverling & Andrew L. Levy on
Posted in Workplace Trends
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it has been named, is a respiratory illness that can spread from person to person. COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus that was first identified in late 2019 during an investigation into an outbreak in Wuhan, China. Cases of coronavirus have…
Final Rule Issued by US Department of Labor Clarifying Joint Employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act
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Posted in Employer Liability, Workplace Trends
As a follow up to its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued in April 2019, the US Department of Labor (DOL) announced on January 12, 2020, the issuance of a Final Rule to revise and clarify the standard for joint employment status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The DOL explained that the Final Rule…