Employers, Are All Of Your Employees Requesting FFCRA Leave This Fall?
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Uncategorized
By: Amy Epstein Gluck My county’s school board just made an announcement: my 15-year-old will not be attending school with his friends, in person, this fall. There is no half and half option. It’s all remote, period. He will not be playing hockey either, a fact that has him unhappy. What does this have to do…
Read More Keeping It Real: Cases of Race-Based Harassment Continue
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Abuse in the Workplace, Discrimination in the Workplace, Uncategorized
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Employers, what kind of culture are you fostering? Is it one of respect and intolerance of unlawful harassment? Or is it one that perpetuates systemic racism? That is one question raised in this recent federal complaint, filed by two former employees and one current employee, all Black, against one employer in…
Read More SCOTUS: Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation or Transgender Status is Sex Discrimination And Violates Federal Law
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Discrimination in the Workplace, EEOC, LGBT, Sex Discrimination
By: Amy Epstein Gluck An employer who fires or takes an adverse action against an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”). So said the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) on June 15, 2020, a little more than eight months after…
Read More Employers, Your Return-to-Work Policies Should Include Accommodation Requests
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Accommodation of Disabilities, Disabilities and Accommodations (ADA), EEOC, Uncategorized
By: Amy Epstein Gluck As an employment lawyer, I’ve been pretty busy these past couple of week reviewing, revising, and creating return-to-work policies for clients. I’ve got lists. My lists have lists. There’s the social distancing protocol list, hand sanitizer/hand-washing list, and the various federal, state, and local mandates and recommendations, just to name a…
Read More Employers, The USDOL Is Enforcing Paid Sick and Emergency Family Leave Under FFCRA
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Uncategorized
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Employers, remember that honeymoon period where the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) wasn’t enforcing the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) for a few weeks? They wanted to give time to companies to get up to speed with the FFCRA’s requirements. The time is a distant memory as DOL is now…
Read More A UK Coronavirus Update – Who's In Charge?
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Uncategorized
By: Peter Finding and Rory Graham Our excellent, learned partners across the pond have kept us posted on COVID-19 effects in the UK—including an update of WHO is running the UK with the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, out sick with COVID-19. Stark reality in the United Kingdom Infected (NB limited hospital-based testing so far): 65,077;…
Read More Confused About the Paycheck Protection Program Under the CARES Act?
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Uncategorized
We can help! My law partners Paul Economon and Jess Bahs and I penned this summary of the basic provisions of Title I of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) under the CARES Act. I bequeath it to you here, with a little extra from me. NEW LOAN PROGRAM CARES creates a new Business Loan Program…
Read More How Can Smaller Businesses Battling Cash Flow Concerns Comply with FFCRA?
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Uncategorized
By: Amy Epstein Gluck We are all engaged in the new practice of social distancing in order to try to stem the tide of COVID-19 incidence. It’s not easy, that’s for sure. (Here in my house, I am worried that my youngest child, a 15 year-old boy, may be killed outright by his older sisters—they…
Read More Employers, COVID-19 Does Not Nullify Privacy Or Other Data Security Laws
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Uncategorized
I send you into this weekend with a guest post by Marty Robins, one of our amazing Privacy Group partners in Illinois. An expert in all things data privacy, Marty and I talked this week (and last) about the effect of the Coronavirus on data privacy issues. With the current focus on preventing the spread…
Read More The Down and Dirty Breakdown of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act—CLARIFICATION
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Uncategorized
Late last night, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act was signed into law. Honestly, I could write a five-page description of everything that this law provides and does not provide, but that’s not how I roll, and I think you want to read about this in plain English. So, here we go, in bullet point…
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Richard Cohen has litigated and arbitrated complex corporate, commercial and employment disputes for more than 35 years, and is a trusted advisor to business owners and in-house counsel both in the United States and internationally. His clients have included Fortune 100 companies, domestic and foreign commercial and investment banks, Pacific-rim corporations and real estate development companies, as well as start-up businesses throughout the United States.
AMY EPSTEIN GLUCK
Amy Epstein Gluck has represented individuals and corporate clients in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and various federal district courts for more than twenty years. Ms. Epstein Gluck’s current practice areas include employment law—advising on and drafting employment agreements; handling employment negotiations, severance agreements, noncompete and nondisclosure agreements, “wrongful terminations” and other EEO matters; representation at the EEOC level; advising employers about discrimination laws and how to remain in compliance, and employment negotiations.
