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(The following article written by the law firm, Proskauer Rose LLP, and published in Lexology. Proskauer is a leading international law firm with offices in  New York, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Paris, São Paulo and Washington,...

Employers have been facing accommodation requests from employees who consider themselves personally at risk for contracting Covid-19. Typically, an accommodation request deals with working from home or remotely in order to limit their contact with coworkers and...

Now that states and local governments are beginning to relax Stay-at-Home orders, many employers are anxious to have their employees return to work and to some sense of normalcy. Employers that have received PPP funds will need to make sure they are appropriately...

A myriad of federal, state, and local laws has been hastily passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as employers seek to reopen their businesses, in-house counsel and Human Resources professionals tasked with navigating these uncharted waters should bear...

Meat and poultry processing plants across the United States have been forced to shut down as thousands of plant workers have tested positive for COVID-19. Faced with concerns of a nationwide meat shortage as a result of such closures, on April 28, 2020, President...