You’ve found out an employee either tested positive for COVID or was in close contact with someone who did. Of course, you need to let the employee quarantine. Isn’t that a no-brainer? You would think so. Not only should you let the employee quarantine, but you should also require it. What’s the problem, then? Not […]
Are You All Right??
It’s 10 a.m. Your employee hasn’t shown up to work. S/he was supposed to be in by 8:30 a.m. Or maybe your employee is working remotely during the pandemic. The employee missed a scheduled call. You send an email. No response. You call. No response. You’re annoyed. There are deadlines. You can’t have your employees […]
FFCRA is About to Expire — But You Might Still Have to Grant Your Employees COVID Leave
Today is December 10th. I know you don’t need me to tell you today’s date, but I’m going somewhere with it. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) will expire in exactly three weeks. Can Congress extend the FFCRA? Sure. There’s no sign that it will do so at the moment, though. Could Congress resurrect […]
Do You Have to Hire An Applicant With a Positive Drug Test?
Your company is hiring drivers and therefore requires pre-employment drug tests. That makes sense. You want to keep your employees and the public safe. Not to take such a step would be inviting liability, somewhere down the road (pardon the pun). You go through all your usual steps. You find one particular candidate promising and […]
COVID Exposure, OSHA– and You…
Can an employer really get in trouble if an employee gets COVID? I mean, COVID is airborne, and it’s all around. How can anyone really know exactly how someone gets COVID? Just because your employee has COVID, doesn’t mean s/he got it from work, right? Even if s/he did get COVID at work, that doesn’t […]