Coronavirus update 4-16-2020: FBI warns companies about employees faking coronavirus diagnoses
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...
Coronavirus Update 3-31-2020: Employers, PLEASE don’t take your employees’ stimulus checks (plus video of yesterday’s Zoominar)
By Jon Hyman
One employer is an anomaly, two is a trend that must be stopped. Last week, I nominated for the Worst Employer of 2020 an unnamed natio...
Coronavirus Update 3-30-2020: DOL FAQs on the FFCRA, the threequel (and a Zoominar reminder) #coronavirus
By Jon Hyman
A quick reminder that I’ll be live on Zoom today from 1 - 2 pm ET discussing all things Coronavirus, including the DOL’s most recent addit...
Coronavirus Update 3-27-2020 number 2: More answers from the DOL on the FFCRA, and another Zoominar
By Jon Hyman
Late yesterday, the DOL published a second round of FAQs (numbers 15-37) answering more questions on the operation of paid family and sic...
Coronavirus Update 3-27-2020: How are we feeling? #CoronavirusCoping
By Jon Hyman
After a week of self-imposed quarantine in my home, and a week of mandatory sheltering in place by the State, now is as good a time as any...
Coronavirus Update 3-26-2020 number 2: Is the DOL’s FFCRA notice correct as published?
By Jon Hyman
The speed at which the coronavirus news cycle moves is dizzying. Is it possible that the DOL’s FFCRA Employee Rights Poster is correct as ...