The EEOC Provides What May Be Its Final COVID Guidance Update
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
It ain’t over til it’s over, is it? During the pandemic, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) provided employers with information and guidance about keeping the workforce safe, accommodating requests for reasonable accommodations necessitated by COVID-19, vaccines, and return to work matters. Now, almost halfway through 2023, and for the first time since July 2022,…
Read More Employers, Here’s New EEOC Pandemic Guidance About COVID-19 Testing
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
They say two heads are better than one. Thankfully, I have the benefit of multiple excellent brains within the employment group at FisherBroyles, including my law partner Gordon Berger. Gordon not only informed me that yesterday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its COVID-19 pandemic guidance, but he sent a summary of the new guidance…
Read More Companies Confounded by RTO Conflicts
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
RTO or “return to work” issues continue to plague employers. Executives tend to want workers to come into the workplace, and employees collectively respond “Meh. We’ll see.” Employers, I implore you to craft your RTO policies with enough flexibility to maintain that workplace culture you think you are cultivating by trying to mandate attendance in…
Read More COVID-19 Vaccine Policy Exemptions—It’s a Process
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
The interactive process, that is. Doctors writing bogus opt-out letters. An online religious exemption package for sale with “a personalized exemption letter” and “a signed attestation of faith from Pastor David,” which my partner Eric Meyer wrote about a few weeks ago. Bogus claims that a drug that treats parasitic worms in livestock as a…
Read More Workin’ Moms During COVID-19
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
Whether we’re talking about show on Netflix about four Canadian women with very different jobs and families or the oxymoron of the “working mom” (because, of course, all moms work), mothers, in particular, seem to have carried a heavier load during this pandemic. The devastation hit Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders (AANHPI)…
Read More Flexibility Is Key To “Coaxing” Workers Back to the Office
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
Reading “They Want You Back In the Office, How to coax corporate America to return to work?” on Sunday, I thought to myself “oh good, this will address incentives and COVID-19 vaccines, the provision of paid sick leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), and, of course, ideas on flexibility to coax back…
Read More Employers, Thinking About Providing PTO To Employees Who Get COVID-19 Vaccines?
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
If so, President Biden rewards you for it! The White House just announced a paid leave tax credit to employers that provide full pay for any employee that takes time to get a COVID-19 vaccine or recover from the side effects of a COVID-19 vaccine. The American Rescue Plan is funding this tax credit for…
Read More So What Does The New CDC Guidance Really Say?
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
BIG news yesterday! No, I’m not talking about Oprah’s Sunday tell-all interview. (But did you see that??) Rather, yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a clear and succinct guidance document yesterday about what fully vaccinated folks can do now and what remains the same despite the growing disbursement of the COVID-19…
Read More TODAY: Zoom “Office Hour” With Eric and Me—Employment 2021
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
Join my FisherBroyles‘ partner Eric Meyer and me at noon eastern on Zoom today for a little lunchtime happy hour. There’s still time to register here. We’ll talk about these two new U.S. Department of Labor Field Assistance Bulletins released yesterday supporting remote workplace flexibilities. One addresses electronic posting of workplace notices (FLSA and FMLA), and the…
Read More Employers May (NOT Must) Continue To Provide FFCRA Leave—IF This Bill Is Signed
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
As employers know, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) requires certain employers to provide their employees with paid sick leave or expanded family and medical leave for specified reasons related to COVID-19. This year, employers have worked hard to figure out how to calculate employee pay under the FFCRA and, in some cases, whether or not…
Read More 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.
RICHARD COHEN
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.
