COVID Lawsuits are Spreading: What You Can Do to Protect Your Company

WHY ATTEND

Because this is the latest employment law minefield.
Not sure you’re doing enough to protect employees and customers? Worried that the rules you follow are the wrong ones? Want to prevent needless lawsuits over office openings, telework and COVID infections? To help you understand your obligations during a pandemic, we’ve teamed up with employment law attorney and workplace expert Anniken Davenport.

This webinar will explain everything you need to know about preventing COVID lawsuits and answer questions about specific potential situations.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

You’ll learn:

• Which rules to follow (CDC, OSHA, state and local health department rules) and which to adopt as best practices.
  
• Why protecting workers identified as “vulnerable” by the CDC can backfire and land you smack in the middle of an ADEA age or ADA disability lawsuit.
  
• How careless infection control can mean more than a workers’ compensation death or lost wage claim. It can spiral into a wrongful death claim for relatives or others in close contact with your employee. And that may mean a runaway jury award.
  
• Why you should monitor worker health – but not the wrong way. Demand the wrong test and you may be in court fast.
  
• Shutting down? There’s a wrong way to do it and a right way. The wrong way leads to lawsuits.
  
• Opening back up? Learn what OSHA says about what systems must be checked, cleaned and updated.
  
• How mass telework has sparked a lot of litigation and how to do it right without breaking rules in pay, hours worked and exempt classifications.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Anniken Davenport holds an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins, a JD from Penn State and a license to practice law in Pennsylvania. She has over 30 years of experience as a litigator, educator and negotiator. Her career includes private and government labor and employment law practice, including advising and representing governmental units in labor negotiations and contract formation. She has worked for the Pennsylvania Lottery, the Pennsylvania Department of State and the Pennsylvania Department of Labor as an attorney and the Pennsylvania School Board Association as a labor negotiator and trainer. She has defended various government departments in discrimination, workers’ compensation and unemployment compensation cases.

Certification

This program has been approved for 1.0 recertification credit hour(s) through the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) & Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).