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If you’re one of the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic, you might seek unemployment benefits to ease the financial pressure. The risk? You could become the victim of an unemployment scam.
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Traditional work environments and patterns were uprooted by Covid-19, with the vast majority of employees having to adapt overnight to full-time remote work. As we prepare for offices to reopen, employee attitudes and expectations have changed, and workplaces will have to evolve.
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There’s been so much talk about whether you can screen employees for Covid symptoms. If so, how and when do you do it? Do you just take temperatures? Do you ask about symptoms? Do you use a questionnaire? What do you do if employees refuse to be screened?
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New York State recently granted both private and public employees up to four hours of paid leave per injection to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
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On March 29, 2021, California’s newest Covid-19-related legislation requires all employers with 25 or more employees to provide California employees up to 80 hours of Covid-19 paid sick leave.
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The Senate Bill 95, which requires employers with more than 25 employees in California to provide Covid-19 Supplemental Paid Sick leave was discussed earlier here. SB 95 creates California Labor Code Sections 248.2 and 248.3.
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Since March 29, 2021, employers are required to provide California employees a new form of Covid-19 supplemental paid sick leave.
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If we, as HR professionals, thought leave policies were complicated before the Covid-19 global pandemic, we were in for a wake-up call. The rules and regulations we came to live and breathe by were changed drastically and seemingly overnight to accommodate the changed needs of the workforce.
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In the workplace, one of the impacts of the pandemic has been the shutdown or curtailment of new product development activities. But with many of those staff roles curtailed as well, what lies ahead for companies that have had to freeze their innovation and talent?
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It’s 2021 and while we are thankfully making great strides in combatting the Covid-19 pandemic, there is another pandemic that is still in full swing. It’s more subtle and less immediately deadly, but perhaps even more insidious.
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