Nota Bene Episode 82: How Congress is Meeting the Pandemic: Stimulus, Relief, and Recovery with Elizabeth Frazee and Jonathan Meyer
Employment Law Now IV-67- Today's U.S. DOL Phone Briefing re: Federal Coronavirus Initiatives
In its 2025 regular session, the Washington State Legislature passed 10 bills impacting employers that will come into effect this year. These legal changes affect compliance obligations, employee benefits, and protections...more
Oregon employers should note several significant legislative enactments that either recently took effect or will become effective later in 2025. These changes in the law span a range of employment law areas, including...more
Five years after enacting its Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, Delaware has issued its first set of WARN Act regulations. The regulations generally mirror federal WARN Act regulations, but there are...more
Upon taking office, President Joe Biden, through an executive order, instructed the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to review prior guidance on the availability of an individual to receive unemployment benefits if the...more
With the new year comes new laws that affect California employers. The following are the A to Z of changes in the law that may affect your business in 2021....more
Employers in Wisconsin have a new requirement to provide employees notice of the availability of unemployment insurance at the time of separation from employment. Regardless of the reason for separation—for cause or no...more
As the nation slowly reopens for business, employers and employees are understandably filled with uncertainty. For many employees, there is uncertainty about the risks involved with returning to work....more
On April 23, 2020, Hinshaw labor and employment attorneys Brette Bensinger, Maryjo Pirages Reynolds, and Leigh Bonsall presented a webinar titled "Employer compliance and COVID-19: Paid sick Leave, Furloughs and Layoffs."...more
Right now, employers are in the midst of learning new protocols, reading new regulations, and updating company policies to assure legal compliance during this unprecedented period of change. In that atmosphere, it is easy to...more
The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) and the federal government have made significant changes to the laws governing the availability of unemployment insurance benefits. These changes, which respond to the...more
For those of you able to keep up with the tumult of government action taken to address the repercussions of the COVID-19 crisis, you know that the North Carolina Division of Employment Security (DES) temporarily waived the...more
As discussed in our previous article, the Georgia Department of Labor (Georgia DOL) has implemented an emergency rule that requires Georgia employers to file partial claims online on behalf of their employees for any week...more
State and federal governments continue to roll out new COVID-19 laws, regulations, and executive orders. As a result of the ever-changing legal landscape, employers are left confused at the multitude of rules they must follow...more
On March 16, 2020, Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler implemented an emergency rule relating to unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The emergency rule requires Georgia employers to file partial...more
To assist California employers in understanding the possible application of benefits available to workers in response to the COVID-19 crisis under both state and federal law, we provide the following handy chart....more
The State of Illinois has taken strong measures to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. Recognizing the impact of the coronavirus on the State of Illinois, on March 20, 2020, the Governor issued Executive Order 2020-10...more
COVID-19 Employment Challenges With the COVID-19 outbreak, employers are facing many questions related to managing their workforces, protecting their employees, and navigating the effect of government efforts to contain the...more
The Puerto Rico Secretary of Labor and Human Resources, Hon. Briseida Torres-Reyes, has issued Opinion No. 2020-01 on the applicable legal provisions and measures related to the employer-employee relationship in light of the...more
In light of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, H.R. 6201 (FFCRA) passing into law, we put together a top ten list of questions employers have about the FFCRA....more
On March 18, 2020, the United States Senate passed the revised “Families First Coronavirus Response Act,” (“FFCRA”) that had been passed by the United States House earlier this week, which President Trump has now signed. The...more
With the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) continuing to spread across the country, the U.S. House of Representatives (“House”) voted in the early hours of March 14, 2020 to provide emergency relief to Americans through the...more
The federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act, passed today and effective within 15 days, includes two provisions aimed at reducing the financial impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on workers: Emergency Paid Sick Leave...more
On March 18, 2020, Congress passed the "Families First Coronavirus Response Act," legislation aimed to guarantee free COVID-19 testing, increase Medicaid funding, and expand food security initiatives and support for those...more
As people everywhere struggle to adjust to the rapid changes caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, the financial impact on businesses and employees has been a primary concern. Employees are facing reduced work hours and layoffs as...more
The House of Representatives has passed a corrections bill for H.R. 6201, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. The bill will now be considered by the Senate. Key provisions that have attracted significant attention...more