Coronavirus Update 4-30-2020: The last and absolutely final (I hope) word on masks in Ohio businesses
Next Saturday (May 9) will mark the (lucky) 13th anniversary of the Ohio Employer Law Blog (NKA the Coronavirus Law Blog). Never did I eve...
Archive: April 2020
Coronavirus Update 4-29-2020 number 2: Ohio flips (again) on mandatory masks for employees
By Jon Hyman
Adding to the profound confusion on the mask requirements for reopening businesses, Ohio appears to have changed its mind for the third time...
Coronavirus Update 4-29-2020: Governor’s DeWine’s explanation for why masks are only “recommended” falls woefully short
By Jon Hyman
I tuned in yesterday to Governor DeWine’s 2 pm briefing to learn why Ohio had changed its stance on face masks and coverings from “mandat...
Coronavirus Update 4-28-2020 number 2: Ohio’s reopening plan 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 masks for all employees
By Jon Hyman
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller This morning, I wr...
Coronavirus Update 4-28-2020: Ohio’s reopening plan includes 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 masks for all employees
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, Governor DeWine announced his plan to “responsibly” reopen Ohio , which will happen in phases. May 1: Healthcare procedures t...
Coronavirus Update 4-27-2020: Bringing your employees back to work when unemployment pays them more than you do
By Jon Hyman
At 2 pm today, Governor DeWine will announce his plan for restarting Ohio’s economy (currently expected to begin on May 2). One huge issue...
Coronavirus update 4-24-2020: A coronavirus DOL settlement, and listen to me discuss empoyers’ preparations for reopening our economy
By Jon Hyman
It did not take long for the Department of Labor to announce its first-ever settlement of a claimed violation of the Families First Cor...
Coronavirus update 4-23-2020: Your employees walk out in protest over coronavirus-related working conditions. Now what?
By Jon Hyman
This week, Amazon workers are protesting what they view as unsafe working conditions. 300 workers from 50 facilities will skip their sch...
Coronavirus update 4-22-2020: I was (mostly) correct on the intersection between employer-provided paid leave and leave under the FFCRA
By Jon Hyman
Last week I took a stab at making sense of the messy and unclear rules surrounding the substitution of employer-provided leave (which, fo...
Coronavirus update 4-21-2020: Can and should employers require antibody testing as a return-to-work condition?
By Jon Hyman
We all want to get back to work as safely and as quickly as possible. One thing that would allow us to do this with confidence is widesp...
Coronavirus update 4-20-2020: What a business operating in the time of coronavirus CANNOT look like
By Jon Hyman
On Friday I shared my thoughts on the measures businesses absolutely must take as a condition to reopening when governors restart their ...
Coronavirus update 4-17-2020: Preparing your workplace for a restarted economy … plus a podcast and some music
By Jon Hyman
President Trump has been talking for weeks about restarting the economy and getting employees back to work. Last night he unveiled his thr...
Coronavirus update 4-16-2020: FBI warns companies about employees faking coronavirus diagnoses
By Jon Hyman
Given the amount of time I spend on this blog pointing out the awful things that employers do to their employees, I thought I’d flip the ...
Coronavirus Update 4-15-2020: Declaring professional wrestling an essential business demeans the sacrifices all essential workers are making
By Jon Hyman
Have you taken the “Florida Man challenge”? It’s a hoot. You type “Florida man” along with your birthdate to discover the head-scratching ...
Coronavirus Update 4-14-2020: Telecommuting as a reasonable accommodation
By Jon Hyman
Telecommuting has become the coronavirus norm. The CDC recommends that employees who can work from home do so, and state Stay at Home orde...
Coronavirus Update 4-13-2020: Trying to make sense of the substitution of employer-provided leave for EPSL and EFMLA under the FFCRA
By Jon Hyman
One of the more confounding sets of rules under the FFCRA is when employers can require employees to substitute an employer’s own provided...
Coronavirus Update 4-10-2020: The top 5 things I’m doing besides working
By Jon Hyman
How are you filling your non-working time? We used to fill our time running our kids all over the place for various lessons, rehearsals, a...
Coronavirus Update 4-9-2020: CDC issues new guidelines for the return of essential workers to work after a coronavirus exposure
By Jon Hyman
Last night, the Center for Disease Control issued new guidelines for when an essential employer should permit a critical infrastructure e...
Coronavirus Update 4-8-2020: Employers, if you are requiring your employees to wait in line for a coronavirus fever check, please pay them for waiting
By Jon Hyman
Bloomberg Law asks whether employers are “responsible for paying workers for the time it takes to record their body temperatures before e...
Coronavirus Update 4-7-2020 number 2: FFCRA loopholes (and another Zoominar)
By Jon Hyman
Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) have sent a scathing letter to Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia c...
Coronavirus Update 4-7-2020: What does OSHA have to say about coronavirus for employers?
By Jon Hyman
OSHA, the federal agency responsible for health and safety, has been all over the coronavirus pandemic, providing a wealth of resources f...
Coronavirus Update 4-6-2020 number 2: A 4th set of FAQs from the DOL on the FFCRA (and another Zoominar)
By Jon Hyman
If you thought the DOL was done publishing FAQs on the paid sick leave and expanded family and medical leave provisions of the Families Fi...
Coronavirus Update 4-6-2020: We CARES about unemployment
By Jon Hyman
The past two weeks have seen a record 10 million new unemployment claims . This number does not even include many of the millions more who...
Coronavirus Update 4-3-2020: I killed the Easter Bunny
By Jon Hyman
My family has been self-quarantined for the past three weeks. We did so before Ohio ordered people to stay at home, and before anyone star...
Coronavirus Update 4-2-2020: The DOL’s FFCRA regulations contain some BIG changes (and other Zoominar)
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday afternoon, the Department of Labor published its long-awaited (as in, for the past two weeks) regulations to the paid family leave...
Coronavirus Update 4-1-2020 number 2: DOL’s FFCRA regulations are out!
By Jon Hyman
The Department of Labor's FFCRA regulations are out. And they are significant. If you thought you understood this Act, you don't...
Coronavirus Update 4-1-2020: The mechanics of the tax credit for paid family and sick leave under the FFCRA
By Jon Hyman
One of the questions I have received the most since the passage of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act is how employers claim the...