Employers, Your Return-to-Work Policies Should Include Accommodation Requests
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
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 |
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 |
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 Don't Be A Target For the EEOC, Doc!
By Richard Cohen |
While we’ve all been hunkering down, fearful for our own health and the health of our loved ones, neighbors and the entire world, the EEOC has still been ferreting out the activities of health care employers who have seemingly lost sight of their purpose. I’m talking about the health care providers who are alleged to…
Read More How UK businesses can cut staff costs during the corona crisis and still retain talent
By Richard Cohen |
By: Peter Finding, London Partner SEVEN WAYS TO CUT STAFF COSTS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS Cashflow is a major concern for businesses during the coronavirus crisis. The vast majority are looking to cut staff costs in order to survive the coronavirus pandemic, and indeed prosper once normality is restored. But what if you have a talented…
Read More Confused About the Paycheck Protection Program Under the CARES Act?
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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…
Read More Do We Have To Pay Our Employees If We Send Them Home Because Of The Coronavirus?
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Yesterday, two very different employers asked me how the heck they pay employees who are not working. What do they do? Their businesses may suffer considerable losses, or they fear losing their workforce if they do not pay their employees. What are employers’ obligations? Exempt or Nonexempt, That Is The First…
Read More 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.
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.
