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Read guidance, analysis, and updates on the myriad issues arising from the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated hourly every day, the insights published here are written by leading lawyers and law firms helping to make sense of insurance, employment, tax, securities, M&A, risk management, and every other consideration touched by this crisis. Follow the channel for a daily email brief of the latest and best updates. less -

Wage and Hour Around the Corner: From Zoom to Room Staying on Solid Legal Grounds with a Remote Staff or an Office Return

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 4/11/2025

The rules governing the employment relationship are always changing. Laws creating new employer obligations, technology solutions making work more efficient and more complicated, and rules governing the resolution of disputes...more

UK Labour Government Proposes the Right to ‘Switch Off’

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/10/2024

The United Kingdom continues to see rapid growth in the number of workplaces adopting remote and hybrid work arrangements, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although this new type of work offers many...more

Fourth Circuit Upholds Employer's Denial of Remote Work During Pandemic

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 2/16/2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic and afterwards, employers have faced a growing number of requests for remote work arrangements based on a medical disability. The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to grant...more

Bringing employees back to the office

Ius Laboris on 11/27/2023

Remote work has proliferated since the pandemic, but now some companies are trying to bring their employees back to the office. What steps might employers need to take? Here we present insights from 18 jurisdictions....more

How Employers Can Navigate Return to Office as Workers Seek Remote Accommodations

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 11/10/2023

Over the past two years, we have received an increasing number of inquiries from clients regarding their return to the office policies. While some workers object to the end of remote work due to lifestyle preferences, others...more

Requests for Remote Work Accommodations Require Individualized Assessments

Troutman Pepper Locke on 8/7/2023

As more employers are requiring their employees return to the workplace, a recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Oross v. Kutztown University, suggests that employers should...more

Remote Work Considerations In A Post-Pandemic World

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/2/2023

The federal government recently announced the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, and the three-year pandemic finally appears to be in our rearview mirror. Originally published in Law360 - June 1, 2023....more

Today’s Remote Workplace: Navigating Labor & Employment Issues in a Hybrid Environment

Womble Bond Dickinson on 12/2/2022

Remote work already was a growing trend before the COVID-19 pandemic, and that trend rapidly accelerated when the pandemic hit in early 2020. Even as conditions have improved and restrictions have been lifted, many employers...more

Video: Remote and Hybrid Work Policies, COVID-19 Positivity, NLRB/FTC Team Up on Non-Competes – Employment Law This Week

Epstein Becker & Green on 8/4/2022

As featured in #WorkforceWednesday: This week, we look at the business, legal, and tax implications of making decisions on a trend that’s here to stay: remote work....more

I Wonder as They Wander: Revisiting Remote Work Policies

Venable LLP on 3/17/2022

As the pandemic appears to subside, employers are grappling with whether and how to maintain remote work. For some employers, this means revisiting their pre-pandemic remote work policy; for others this means deciding whether...more

Navigating Remote Work and Vaccine Mandates in Latin America: A Road Map for the Region

Morgan Lewis on 2/7/2022

Faithful to the historically employee-friendly nature of laws and courts in the region, most regulators in Latin America are adopting policies to protect remote workers and their constitutional rights to make unpressured...more

Littler 2021 European Employer Survey Report - November 2021

Littler on 11/10/2021

Executive Summary - Despite all that remains uncertain for European employers – involving the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic, new working models or any number of other emergent workforce issues – one area has come...more

Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 16

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 9/20/2021

Vaccine mandates and return-to-work scenarios seem to be the hot topics of the day, and with all hot topics, along comes litigation. Along with litigation, comes serious discussions by employers and organizations about how...more

Mastering Remote Work: Does Returning to the Office Mean Bringing Pets to Work?

Polsinelli on 6/21/2021

With so much of the workforce going remote this past year, there has been a huge shift in the way many people view pet ownership. In fact, the national pet adoption rate jumped more than 30% at the beginning of the pandemic,...more

Special Report - Global Employment Law Update - Spring 2021

McDermott Will & Schulte on 6/4/2021

Employment law continues to evolve, and it can be a challenge amid an ever-changing landscape of local employment laws for human resources executives and employment counsel at multi-national businesses to maintain a...more

The Littler Annual Employer Survey Report - May 2021

Littler on 5/13/2021

This report summarizes and analyzes data gathered from 1,160 in-house lawyers, C-suite executives and HR professionals. The survey covers the wide-ranging issues facing employers as we look toward a post-pandemic future –...more

Preparing for the Future of Work

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/29/2021

Speculating about the future can be a perilous undertaking. If predictions from the twentieth century were right, we would be cruising around in flying cars and living in moonbases or on remote planets by now. Putting those...more

Mexican Employers Will Need To Adapt To New Teleworking Measures

Fisher Phillips on 1/27/2021

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador just signed into effect an amendment to Federal Labor Law that radically reforms its teleworking provisions – among other things, it will require employers to enter into written...more

New Year’s resolutions for employers and HR professionals

McAfee & Taft on 1/11/2021

Most employers spent 2020 trying to navigate the issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the pandemic is continuing into 2021, now that employers have found a new normal, it is time to make a list of goals for the New...more

December 2020: The Top 18 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 1/6/2021

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

5 Practical Tips For Reviewing Your Handbook And Policies

Cozen O'Connor on 12/17/2020

Each year, employers should review and reevaluate their employee handbooks and policies. This is an important practice as new laws will often go into effect at the start of a new year. It is also a safe way to ensure...more

With Remote Workers in Different States, What About Jurisdiction?

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 10/29/2020

With the explosion of remote work arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic, employers are more likely to have remote employees who live in different states. A company should examine whether it is actually subject to...more

JAN Speaks, and We Should Listen . . . Sorry, Marcia.

Jaburg Wilk on 9/3/2020

The COVID pandemic has created unprecedented change in our lives and the workplace is no exception. Employers have had to scramble to meet accommodation requests in an unsure and novel environment. One of my favorite...more

An employer’s guide to navigating common issues involving remote workers

McAfee & Taft on 8/24/2020

“Working from home,” “teleworking,” “working remotely.” Call it what you will, the concept has always been troublesome for employers. COVID-19 has forced employers to reconsider this concept, which has become essential for...more

Covert Costs Of The COVID-19 Pandemic: Expense Reimbursement For Remote Workers

Fisher Phillips on 6/1/2020

Employers across the nation have faced swift and dramatic changes to business operations as states and local municipalities have issued “stay-at-home” orders and imposed other restrictions in the hopes of stymying the spread...more

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