COVID Recovery and Relief: What Employers Need to Know Now

WHY ATTEND

While employers have been conforming to the “new normal” a whole new set of obstacles are being thrown into the mix. To help you understand your obligations during the pandemic recovery phase, we’ve teamed up with employment law attorney and workplace expert Anniken Davenport. She will explain everything you need to know about OSHA and CDC rules on safe workplaces, vaccinations and new and coming legislation guaranteeing equal pay and non-discrimination for everyone.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This 60-minute webinar will explain all your burning questions, including:

• Which rules must we follow (CDC, OSHA, state and local health department rules) and which should be adopted as best practices?
  
• Could protecting workers identified as “vulnerable” by the CDC backfire and land us in the middle of an ADEA age or ADA disability lawsuit?
  
• Can we demand Covid vaccines for our employees coming back to the office?
• Do we have to pay employees to get inoculated and if they miss work because of an adverse reaction?
  
• Could careless infection control mean more than a workers’ compensation death or lost wage claim? Could it spiral into a wrongful death claim for relatives or others in close contact with your employee? (This may mean a runaway jury award)
  
• How do we claim tax credits for giving employees time off for COVID related reasons?
  
• How does the coming amendments to the Equal Pay Act change starting salaries and raises?
  
• How do we switch back into the office, now that it’s no longer necessary to shut down workplaces for infection control?

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Anniken has taught business law and HR management at Penn State University and directed the Legal Studies Program at Wilson College. She has represented the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in discrimination and employment law cases and school districts in labor negotiations. Anniken holds an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins and a JD from Penn State.