New Year, New COVID-19 Guidance For Employers…Again
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | CDC Guidance, Workplace Safety
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their COVID-19 quarantine/isolation guidance for the second time in ten days. Don’t shoot the messenger! I told you here that on December 27, 2021, the CDC shortened the recommended time for isolation from 10 days for asymptomatic people—regardless of whether they are vaccinated or not—with COVID-19…
Read More Employer Tools In the Fight Against COVID-19: Paid COVID-19 Vaccine and Sick Leave
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | CDC Guidance, Covid-19 Vaccines, Employee Benefits, Workplace Safety
As the Delta variant surges, and “breakthrough” infections become more commonplace, employers may want to revisit the concept of providing paid sick leave. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people infected with the Delta variant can transmit it to others, according to CDC guidance here. In fact, “[t]he greatest risk of…
Read More A COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Toolkit For Employers of Essential Workers
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Accommodation of Disabilities, Covid-19 Vaccines, Disabilities and Accommodations (ADA)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) issued a new guidance document yesterday aimed at employers of essential workers—a COVID-19 vaccine communication toolbox. Who is an “essential” worker? Essential workers do the important work. They maintain the country’s daily needed services and functions. Examples include police officers, firefighters, and people working in education, child…
Read More Employers May (NOT Must) Continue To Provide FFCRA Leave—IF This Bill Is Signed
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Covid-19, FFCRA
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 Employers Encounter Employee Turkey Travel Plans
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Covid-19, FFCRA, General Employer Guidance, Workplace Safety
How should businesses handle employee travel for Thanksgiving? This is a year unlike any other. We have a worldwide pandemic competing with employees swarming airports to be with their families who live in other states despite guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention imploring folks not to travel this year. My #emplaw @FisherBroyles…
Read More Employers, the CDC Has Updated Their COVID-19 Testing Guidance For Asymptomatic People
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | CDC Guidance, Covid-19
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) has again updated their testing guidelines. The new language, which you can review here, “clarifies” the recommendations made in August, but to me, it seems to be a rollback.It emphasizes that anyone who has been in contact with an infected person should be tested whether or not…
Read More Just When You Think You Have A Handle On COVID-19 Quarantine Protocol…A Symptoms-Based Approach Emerges As CDC Guidance
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | CDC Guidance, Covid-19
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Employees must wear masks in the workplace? Check. Employees working in a socially distant manner at least six feet apart? Check. Emergency paid sick leave and expanded family medical leave policy drafted and distributed so that employees know about their rights to leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act? Check.…
Read More How Can Smaller Businesses Battling Cash Flow Concerns Comply with FFCRA?
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Covid-19, FFCRA
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 Do We Have To Pay Our Employees If We Send Them Home Because Of The Coronavirus?
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Abuse in the Workplace, Covid-19
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 Employee-Friendly California Provides Specific Guidance to Employers About Leave and Pay Related To COVID-19
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Covid-19, Wage & Hour
By: Amy Epstein Gluck On March 5, 2020, in a FisherBroyles client alert, I provided some answers to several pressing general questions that employers might have about managing their workforce during this turbulent time. If you missed the alert, you can read it here. If we know one thing about this Coronavirus or COVID-19, we…
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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.
