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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.

Most employers addressed BLM protests with staff

07/07/2020
Employers are publicly embracing anti-racism and Black Lives Matter messaging in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd and subsequent weeks-long national protests.

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.

Snapshot: Youngest workers are most diverse in history

07/07/2020
As of 2018, almost half of Americans age 21 and younger were not Caucasian.

The HR I.Q. Test: July ’20

07/01/2020
Here’s your monthly quiz on HR news and trends.

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.

Coronavirus pandemic has us second-guessing careers

06/30/2020
After months of maneuvering through the coronavirus crisis, many employees are rethinking what’s most important when it comes to their careers, new research from global staffing firm Robert Half suggests.

Even after reopening, prepare for some staff to remain remote

06/30/2020
Redesigning workplaces for social distancing, virus containment and general safety is proving daunting and expensive. No wonder some employers are rethinking whether to reopen.

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.