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Testing Workers for COVID-19 Raises Privacy, Discrimination Issues

Employers whose businesses continue to operate are obviously concerned about the coronavirus spreading through their worksites, so many have started testing their workers. Recent U.S....

Commercial Properties Increasingly Vulnerable to Weather-related Risks

A new report highlights the risks to commercial real estate owners from natural catastrophes and climate-related disasters, which are happening with increasing frequency. The report...

10 Potential Causes of Employee COVID-19 Lawsuits

The novel coronavirus that broke out in the winter has caused immeasurable suffering, both physical and economic. For employers struggling to stay in business, this...

How to Protect Your Business Teleconference Meetings

Since face-to-face meetings are out of the question when most non-essential workers are under stay-at-home orders, many companies have opted for the teleconferencing app Zoom....

OSHA Won’t Require COVID-19 Cases to Be Recorded

Federal OSHA announced on April 13 that it won’t be enforcing COVID-19 recordkeeping requirements. The announcement reverses an earlier decision requiring that transmission of the...

Insurers Ordered to Refund Premiums Due to Outbreak

California’s insurance commissioner has ordered insurers doing business in the state to refund some premium payments to policyholders for a number of commercial lines, as...

COVID-19 Emergency Workers’ Compensation Rating Changes on Tap

Emergency rules are being developed to guide workers’ compensation classification and claims for coronavirus-affected employers and their workers in California.   The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating...

CARES Act Helps Coronavirus-affected Employers, Employees Alike

The $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act stimulus law to help American workers and businesses weather the outbreak has a number...

It’s Okay to Screen Workers for Fevers During Outbreak: EEOC

Employers that are still open at this time have been wondering if they may be violating their employees’ rights to medical privacy by scanning their...

CARES Act Boosts Unemployment Benefits for Laid-off, Furloughed Workers

With the sudden eruption of economic calamity, and more than 247 million Americans under stay-at-home orders, some 3.1 million individuals filed for unemployment in the...