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Employee Support Through Disaster Response: 5 Routine-Building Strategies

Disasters disrupt more than just business operations. They interrupt lives, upend routines, and impact each employee in different ways. Whether facing a natural disaster, workplace violence, or other critical event, the...more

Epstein Becker & Green

What Health Care Lawyers and Professionals Need to Know About Emerging Employee Benefit Issues

“ERISA, you’ll need a lawyer for that.” Our practice group’s tagline is meant to be a shorthand for the alphabet soup of laws that apply to employee benefits, including the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)....more

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What Employers Need to Know About New York's Expansion of Workers' Compensation Benefits for Mental Health Injuries

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New York significantly expanded workers’ compensation benefits to include coverage of certain mental health-related injuries. As of January 1, 2025, the New York Workers’ Compensation Law provides that “all workers” who...more

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The U.S. Mental Health Crisis – Mental Health: Beyond the ADA and FMLA

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Real World Impact: This article is a continuation of a series of Alerts providing guidance for employers on mental health in the workplace and specifically addresses how employers can not only meet the requirements of the...more

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How Modern Workplaces Navigate Generational Shifts: One-on-One with Jeff Landes

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Generational shifts in the workplace bring unique challenges and opportunities for employers striving to build productive and engaged teams. In this one-on-one conversation, Epstein Becker Green attorney Jeff Landes joins...more

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A Bit of Mental Health Parity Relief for Employers Sponsoring Group Health Plans

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The Department of Labor (DOL), together with the Departments of Treasury and Health and Human Services) have decided to suspend enforcement of certain provisions of the nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTL) final...more

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When Emotional Support and Service Animals Fall Short: ADA Lessons From Fisher v. City of Lansing

On April 29, 2025, in Fisher v. City of Lansing, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan ruled that the City of Lansing did not fail to accommodate an employee’s request to bring an emotional support dog...more

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Do Employers Need to Provide Indefinite Remote Work as a Reasonable Accommodation?

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Employers are increasing the push for employees to return to physical workplaces. Whether through flexible hybrid models or return-to-office mandates, companies are reevaluating what work looks like in a post-pandemic world....more

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Mental Health Awareness Month: Supporting Employee Mental Health While Navigating ADA Compliance

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month — a timely reminder for employers to reflect on how mental health intersects with workplace obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Many employers across the country...more

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Under Pressure: Mental Health at Work in Times of Uncertainty

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Today is the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. To mark the occasion, we take a look at the important area of mental health in the workplace, something that has become one of the most pressing concerns for employers...more

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Standards Loosened for PA First Responders to Claim Workers’ Compensation for Post-Traumatic Stress Injury

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Effective Oct. 29, 2025, an amendment to the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act (Act), adopted via Pennsylvania Senate Bill 365 (Bill), will change the standard for first responders, including Emergency Medical Services...more

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When Does an Employee's Anxiety Trigger ADA Accommodation Obligations?

Most human resource professionals can attest to meeting with employees who state that they are struggling with anxiety issues that affect their work performance. ...more

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New Health and Safety Action Required for Brazil Employers – Psychosocial Risks

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New Regulatory Requirements - Companies with employees in Brazil have until May 26, 2025, to revise their Brazil Risk Management Program (PGR) to include psychosocial risks....more

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Massachusetts Expands Reasons for Use of Earned Sick Time

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The Massachusetts legislature has expanded the reasons employees can use Massachusetts Earned Sick Time through provisions in a larger bill entitled, “An Act Promoting Access to Midwifery Care and Out-of-Hospital Birth...more

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Guía normativa para equipos de RRHH y legales en materia de la Seguridad y Salud en el trabajo

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Según cifras de la Organización Mundial de la Salud se estima que cada año se pierden 12 000 millones de días de trabajo debido a la depresión y la ansiedad, a un costo de US$ 1 billón por año en pérdida de productividad...more

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Workplace Stress in Mexico: 7 Considerations and Strategies for Employers

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Workplace stress affects millions globally, and Mexico has one of the highest rates of work-related stress in the world. Given this context, companies doing business in Mexico have become acutely aware of the significant...more

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What's the Tea in L&E? Is Your Workplace "Toxic?" Best Practices for Psychological Safety

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What’s the Tea in L&E is a video series focused on the latest trends and updates in labor and employment law. In this short video, WRVB labor and employment attorneys Leah Stiegler and Emily Kendall Chowhan discuss “toxic"...more

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New Iowa Supreme Court Decision Lowers the Causation Standard to Receive Workers’ Compensation for Purely Mental Injuries

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The Iowa Supreme Court’s recent decision in the case Tripp v. Scott Emergency Commc’n Ctr. lowers the burden required to receive workers’ compensation for many injured workers in Iowa who suffer purely mental injuries while...more

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New Mental Health Obligations for all Victorian Employers Expected to Take Effect on 1 July 2022

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The Victorian Government's proposed Occupational Health and Safety Amendment (Psychological Health) Regulations (Vic) (the Proposed Regulations) are expected to commence on 1 July 2022. The Proposed Regulations contain...more

White and Williams LLP

Managing Generation Z in the Workplace

The post-COVID-19 workplace is here. Those of us who had established physical places of work are returning to our physical workspaces or the return is on the horizon. For many, the return will feel awkward at first, but my...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Rule 3: Wash Your Hands – Return to Work in the Time of COVID-19

Whether physically in the office or not, regularly washing your hands should already be a routine practice. However, this innate rule is especially important, and recommended by the Center for Disease Control (“CDC”), to help...more

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5 Ways to Help Others and Stay Mentally Strong

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We are a few weeks into shelter at home, social distancing, remote working, and job losses. What mental health experts warned us might happen, has happened. Some people are lonely, frightened, agitated, and angry. Others are...more

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