ICYMI—Webinar Recording of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Considerations At Work
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Covid-19 Vaccines, Workplace Safety
Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use by people 16 years of age and older. Yet, COVID-19 cases are still surging throughout most of the country thanks to the Delta Variant. Eager to get bodies back in office chairs, more employers are developing and implementing COVID-19…
Read More Workin’ Moms During COVID-19
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Covid-19, Discrimination in the Workplace, Mental Health, Race-based Discrimination, Harassment, Workplace Safety
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 ICYMI—Two Lawyers Talk COVID-19 Vaccine Concerns, New DOL Bulletins, And Looking Toward 2021
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Covid-19 Vaccines, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), FFCRA
Yesterday, my esteemed law partner Eric Meyer got together for lunch with about 200 of you, including my Dad, to talk about some employment law things on our mind. Neither of us get out much, clearly. Guest-starring on Eric’s YouTube blog was certainly the highlight of my week! But ICYMI, we started off with the…
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 Employee in Quarantine? Or Caring For A Child Whose School Is Closed? Calculating FFCRA Leave Can Be Hard.
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Covid-19, FFCRA
The U.S. Department of Labor agreed, and decided to make leave times and payment easier to calculate for employers subject to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) with a handy chart. Wait, Do I Have To Provide FFCRA Leave? Don’t know if you, employer, have to comply with FFCRA? Let’s answer these simple questions:…
Read More Employers May Need To Revise Their FFCRA Policies
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | FFCRA
Oops, they did it again. Responding to an August 3 Order invalidating certain regulations from a case filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, on September 11, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a temporary rule reaffirming and revising some of its regulations interpreting the Families First…
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 Employers, The USDOL Is Enforcing Paid Sick and Emergency Family Leave Under FFCRA
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Covid-19, FFCRA
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 Confused About the Paycheck Protection Program Under the CARES Act?
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Covid-19, FFCRA
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…
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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.
