The COVID-19 Pandemic has forced employers to face public health, customer service, workforce, travel, and business disruptions in constantly evolving circumstances. Many of the decisions that employers must make on-the-fly create unintended consequences with serious labor and employment law liability issues. This blog will address employment discrimination and leave law-related issues raised by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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HIRING AND RECRUITING IN TIGHT LABOR MARKETS
The unemployment rate hovered at a 49-year low of 3.6 percent in both April and May of 2019. Low unemployment typically creates a jobseeker’s market in which workers find plentiful attractive job openings. On the other side of the equation, however, employers usually have a…
EEOC Study of Workplace Harassment Urges Employers to Do More Prevention
Recently, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued the results of a study of workplace harassment. The agency convened a task force to conduct this study in January 2015. The task force issued a report in June 2016. Task Force Report. It concluded that since…
