Safety/Health

Employee tests positive? How to notify staff

07/16/2020

Millions of Americans have tested positive for the coronavirus, so odds are that one or more of your employees will test positive in the coming months. But there is a smart (and legal) way to communicate this news to your employees.

Prepare for ADA suits driven by health fears

07/09/2020

Simultaneous health and financial crises have given us all plenty to fear. Surely you are doing your best to prove to employees that your workplace is safe. Most will be assured. However, a small subset of workers may remain paralyzed by safety concerns.

Union pushes for national covid safety rules

07/09/2020

The AFL-CIO labor union is leaning hard on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue a binding emergency workplace safety standard for dealing with covid-19.

Spring regulatory agenda addresses contractor, wellness issues

07/07/2020

The Trump administration’s Spring 2020 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions—released late, on June 30—spells out what it hopes to accomplish between now and the end of the year.

Avoid 3 critical errors when reopening the office

06/30/2020

In a still-confusing time, you want to get people back to work, and keep them there. But Dan Kaplan,a partner at Foley & Lardner’s Madison, Wisconsin office and a leader on the firm’s Coronavirus Task Force, has some reminders for us of the organizational and legal issues we cannot look past.

OSHA issues guidance on face masks at work

06/26/2020

OSHA’s General Duty Clause requires employers to provide “equipment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards” that may cause serious harm or death.

Prepare for more suits claiming unsafe work

06/25/2020

Lawsuits over working conditions that promote injuries, contagion and illness are likely to skyrocket in the coming year.

Emphasize safety to convince employees to return to work

06/23/2020

To persuade employees to choose to work on-site again, the Gartner consulting firm says employers should approach reopening with these three considerations in mind.

Snapshot: Return-to-work measures employers will implement

06/23/2020

Employers will welcome staff back this summer with these precautions to limit spread of the coronavirus.

Off-duty worker ignores social distancing: How to respond

06/18/2020

If you discover that employees have flaunted local COVID-19 guidelines outside of work, can you place them on an unpaid leave of absence to quarantine before they return to work?