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Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

What employers can expect from Biden’s presidency: A temporary emergency OSHA standard for COVID-19

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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the identification of the first COVID-19 case in the United States. On January 20, 2020, the State o...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Biden calls for extension and expansion of FFCRA

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As you should hopefully be aware, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), the federal law that provided paid leave to employees...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Coronavirus Update 1-12-2021: 8 of the 10 deadliest days in US history are because of Covid

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While we've all been mentally overcome by the rebellion that unfolded at the Capitol and the civil war that I fear it started, Covid-19 ...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

I’m not in Kansas anymore … or ever (an unemployment fraud story)

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What's wrong with this photo?
Monday, January 4, 2021

Coronavirus Update 1-4-2021: DOL approves telemedicine visits to establish a serious health condition under the FMLA

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With the COVID-19 pandemic closing health-care-provider offices or severely limiting patient access, many have turned to telehealth to remot...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Coronavirus Update 12-22-2020: Congress approves an FFCRA extension (sort of)

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Late yesterday, Congress approved the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, better known as its $900 billion COVID-19 rescue stimulus. Pres...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Coronavirus Update 12-21-2020: Ensuring compliance with your Covid safety protocols shouldn’t be a mission impossible

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British newspaper The Sun published leaked audio  capturing Tom Cruise angrily addressing two crew members who he believed had breached Covi...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

Coronavirus Update 12-17-2020, part 2: The COVID-19 vaccine and race discrimination

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One issue the EEOC omitted from its technical guidance on the COVID-19 vaccine is the issue of race discrimination.  According to one recen...

Coronavirus Update 12-17-2020: EEOC releases guidance on the COVID-19 vaccine

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Yesterday, the EEOC published its guidance on the COVID-19 vaccine under the ADA and GINA, in the form of nine Q & As. You can read them...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Coronavirus Update 12-15-2020: Don’t be this a-hole

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According to Cleveland.com , a pair of Ohio parents are facing possible criminal charges after piling 60 maskless teenagers into a party bus...
Monday, December 14, 2020

If you’re tired of reading about the Worst Employer voting, you can now listen to me talk about it

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Marc Alifanz and Kate Bischoff are two of my favorite people. They also happen to host one of my favorite podcasts, Hostile Work Environme...
Friday, December 11, 2020

Coronavirus Update 12-11-2020: Food insecurity

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One of the great tragedies of the COVID-19 pandemic is the number of Americans who are without enough food to eat. It is estimated that near...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Coronavirus Update 12-9-2020: Maskual harassment, part 2

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"I wish I could see your pretty lips if they match ur eyes." "Come on, sweetie. Lemme see that pretty face under there. Take ...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Coronavirus Update 12-8-2020: Tipped restaurant and other service workers at high risk for “maskual harassment"

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Everyone has been hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic. Service industry employees, however, have been hit particularly hard. Many are out ...
Monday, December 7, 2020

Coronavirus Update 12-7-2020: Vaccines

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We are days away from the FDA approving two different COVID-19 vaccines, and it is being reported that the first people could start receivi...
Friday, December 4, 2020

Coronavirus Update 12-4-2020: COVID is like a blizzard

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I didn't write today's post. My healthcare worker sister-in-law did. Hopefully she doesn't mind that I'm sharing what she po...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Coronavirus Update 12-3-2020: CDC cuts recommended quarantine period from 14 days to 7 – 10 days (sort of)

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Yesterday, the CDC amended its guidance on the duration of quarantine for individuals in close contact with someone else positive with COV...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Coronavirus Update 12-2-2020: Congress must extend the FFCRA

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The Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the federal law that provides paid sick and family leave to employees for COVID-19-related abse...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Coronavirus Update 11-23-2020: Thankful

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2020 has certainly been a year like no other. People are sick and dying. Hospitals are filling up. Our essential workers are stressed and ti...
Friday, November 20, 2020

Coronavirus Update 11-20-2020: The 12th nominee for the “worst employer of 2020” is … bad bettor

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Do you remember that scene from The Deer Hunter  where Christopher Walken plays Russian roulette in a betting parlor, while the patrons plac...