By: Melanie M. Dunajeski Employers everywhere are struggling to bring employees back into the workplace in a way that creates the safest environment for everyone. I wrote last month on EEOC Guidance for bringing higher risk employees back to work [“Returning Higher Risk Employees… Read More >
COVID-19: Labor & Employment
Antibody Tests DO NOT Equal COVID-19 Viral Tests: EEOC COVID-19 Guidance Updates
OSHA Update on Reporting and Recording Requirements for COVID-19
By: Sean T. Devenney OSHA’s guidance on COVID-19 has been fluid over the last several months and it has particularly been fluid on whether and when an employer has an obligation to record/report a COVID-19 incident as work related. As prior posts have indicated,… Read More >
Returning Higher Risk Employees to Work: EEOC COVID-19 Guidance Updates
By: Melanie M. Dunajeski Slowly, tentatively, we are returning to our workplaces following state and local COVID-19 stay at home orders targeting slowing the spread of the disease. As we do, new questions arise daily about how we as employers must respond to keep… Read More >
Restaurants: Mitigating Coronavirus Risk Exposure
By: Melanie A. Kalmbach With the recent opening of restaurants in most counties in Indiana, it is important for restaurant owners to ensure they are following all appropriate state and local mandates as well as guidelines from the CDC, FDA and OSHA in order… Read More >
Doubling Down on Employer Documentation for the Next Normal
By: Melanie M. Dunajeski Clients who have worked with me over the years know one of my top employer mantras is “Document, Document, Document.” Routine, contemporaneous documentation of attendance, performance, discipline, training/cross-training, and qualifications gives a more complete and more unfiltered picture of an… Read More >
Reporting and Recording COVID-19 and OSHA-Updated as of April 13
By: Sean T. Devenney On its website, OSHA made it very clear that an employee’s COVID-19 infection could become a reportable and recordable OSHA events in certain circumstances. In particular, OSHA’s website as of April 13, 2020, provides: OSHA recordkeeping requirements at 29 CFR… Read More >
COVID-19, OSHA, and the OSHA Whistleblower
By: Sean T. Devenney As a result of COVID-19 in Indiana, employees working in essential job functions are certainly asking more questions about safety in the workplace than ever before. These employees are finely tuned to the “social distancing requirements” and recommendations of the… Read More >