The Secretary of Puerto Rico’s Department of Labor and Human Resources issued an Opinion (Opinion 2020-01) urging employers to adopt teleworking policies to mitigate possible contagion in the workplace.
COVID-19 is the top priority across businesses and industries as the virus affects millions of people. This Insight highlights some of the issues of particular concern to the retail community.
New York State adopted new legislation on March 18, 2020 that provides employees, who are subject to a COVID-19 mandatory or precautionary quarantine or isolation order, with immediate paid or unpaid time off specific to the current crisis.
Most employers are familiar with the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act and relevant state or local paid sick leave laws. But there are other, lesser-known laws potentially implicated amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Como resultado a un estudio sobre violencia laboral contra las mujeres y la obligación patronal de implementar, en acuerdo con los trabajadores, un protocolo para prevenir la discriminación por razones de género y atención de casos de violencia.
On March 13, 2020, Puerto Rico’s Department of Labor and Human Resources’ Secretary, Hon. Briseida Torres Reyes, issued Opinion 2020-01 discussing statutory rights and other applicable measures in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency.
On March 3, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court held that federal law did not prevent states from using their identity theft statutes to prosecute criminal cases where defendants, undocumented immigrants, used stolen Social Security numbers to get jobs.
On March 11, 2020, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment issued emergency rules that require certain employers to provide paid sick leave for employees with flu-like symptoms who are being tested for COVID-19, effective immediately.
Effective March 16, 2020, virtually all private employers in Colorado will be subject to the new Colorado Overtime and Minimum Pay Standards Order Number 36, which expands overtime, meal and rest break, and travel time requirements, among other things.
