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OVERVIEW COVID-19 is a new disease. It’s hard for employers to know what to do or what they are expected to do as the situation changes daily. State law may affect an employer’s obligations. However even in currently unaffected states, employees expect employers to do what they can to keep them safe and be able to answer “what if.” With all types of risk assessment and emergency planning the best first line of defense is elimination of hazard. So  today is the day for making a plan and getting your workplaceready for COVID-19 crisis  because elimination of hazard can’t be accomplished in hindsight. The second most effective way of eliminating risk is substitution, meaning to substitute the source of the hazard by something else. Such as a bank could substitute waiting on customers in person by better utilizing drive-up windows or remote teller stations, thereby providing a way to put social distance and physical barriers between customers and employees. There are ...

Employers and employees are worried about the COVID-19 crisis and to protect the business as well as the resources it’s important to map out a particular plan to deal with this emerging issue. Our upcoming webinar discusses what are an employer’s compliance obligations, and how leave, benefit and sick policies apply and if they should be temporarily changed. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          How OSHA safety guidelines apply and wage and hour considerations ·          Using remote work considerations from inside an office to use social distancing to lower risk ·          Who pays the bills? How less robust insurance plans put employees and customers at risk? What an employer can do? LEARNING OBJECTIVES Employers and employees are both worried about the emerging Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19.) Unaffected states are expecte...

OVERVIEW COVID-19 is a new disease. It’s hard for employers to know what to do or what they are expected to do as the situation changes daily. State law may affect an employer’s obligations. However even in currently unaffected states, employees expect employers to do what they can to keep them safe and be able to answer “what if.” With all types of risk assessment and emergency planning the best first line of defense is elimination of hazard. So  today is the day for making a plan and getting your workplace ready for COVID-19 crisis  because elimination of hazard can’t be accomplished in hindsight. The second most effective way of eliminating risk is substitution, meaning to substitute the source of the hazard by something else. Such as a bank could substitute waiting on customers in person by better utilizing drive-up windows or remote teller stations, thereby providing a way to put social distance and physical barriers between customers and employees. There are...

OVERVIEW COVID-19 is a new disease. It’s hard for employers to know what to do or what they are expected to do as the situation changes daily. State law may affect an employer’s obligations. However even in currently unaffected states, employees expect employers to do what they can to keep them safe and be able to answer “what if.” With all types of risk assessment and emergency planning the best first line of defense is elimination of hazard. So  today is the day for making a plan and getting your workplace ready for COVID-19 crisis  because elimination of hazard can’t be accomplished in hindsight. The second most effective way of eliminating risk is substitution, meaning to substitute the source of the hazard by something else. Such as a bank could substitute waiting on customers in person by better utilizing drive-up windows or remote teller stations, thereby providing a way to put social distance and physical barriers between customers and employees. There are...