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Chicago Prohibits Retaliation Against Employees Who Stay Home Due to COVID-19

Date:

May 29, 2020

A new ordinance prohibits employers from taking adverse action against employees who obey orders to stay at home, quarantine or isolate due to the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Maryland Toughens Mini-WARN Act for Employers

Date:

May 27, 2020

Effective October 1, Maryland employers will face new requirements under the state's amended mini-WARN Act without any exception for a health pandemic.
States Ask Employers to Report Employees Who Decline Return-to-Work Offers

Date:

May 22, 2020

Several states have set up websites for employers with guidance and ways to report employees who refuse offers to return to work as businesses take steps to reopen from the COVID-19 pandemic.
CDC Offers New COVID-19 Guidance for Employers

Date:

May 21, 2020

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued guidance to help workplaces and other institutions to safely reopen.
IRS Allows Mid-Year Changes to Cafeteria Plans in Response to Coronavirus

Date:

May 18, 2020

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is allowing employers to decide if they want to let employees make mid-year elections for health coverage, health flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and dependent care assistance programs.
Court Dismisses Coronavirus Safety Lawsuit Against Meatpacking Plant

Date:

May 14, 2020

A federal district court dismissed a lawsuit charging a Missouri meatpacking plant with failing to protect workers from the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), saying authority over the plant lies with OSHA and the USDA.
Los Angeles Adopts COVID-19 Right-of-Recall and Worker-Retention Laws

Date:

May 12, 2020

Los Angeles employers in certain industries especially hard hit by the coronavirus must rehire employees furloughed or laid off due to COVID-19 in a specified manner, rather than at the employers' discretion, under a pair of new city ordinances.
EEOC Delays EEO-1 Data Collection Due to Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Date:

May 7, 2020

The EEOC said it expects to begin collecting the 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 in March 2021.
Quarantined Employees Entitled to Back Pay After Employers Denied Emergency Paid Sick Leave

Date:

May 5, 2020

A California employer and another in Arizona must pay back wages for denying paid leave under the newly passed Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA) to employees who had been under quarantine for possible COVID-19 exposure.
EEOC: Employers May Test Employees for COVID-19 Before They Enter the Workplace

Date:

April 28, 2020

Employers may take steps to determine if employees entering the workplace have COVID-19 because an individual with the virus will pose a direct threat to the health of others, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said.

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Chicago Prohibits Retaliation Against Employees Who Stay Home Due to COVID-19

Maryland Toughens Mini-WARN Act for Employers

States Ask Employers to Report Employees Who Decline Return-to-Work Offers

CDC Offers New COVID-19 Guidance for Employers

IRS Allows Mid-Year Changes to Cafeteria Plans in Response to Coronavirus

Court Dismisses Coronavirus Safety Lawsuit Against Meatpacking Plant

Los Angeles Adopts COVID-19 Right-of-Recall and Worker-Retention Laws

EEOC Delays EEO-1 Data Collection Due to Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Quarantined Employees Entitled to Back Pay After Employers Denied Emergency Paid Sick Leave

EEOC: Employers May Test Employees for COVID-19 Before They Enter the Workplace

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