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DMi Webinar: What Employers Need to Know About Ebola for Now

Duane Morris Institute along with Jonathan A. Segal would like to extend an invitation to our complimentary webinar on the Ebola virus. This will be a fast paced, 30 minute webinar. We want to help you prepare for what we hope will not occur without fomenting panic.

Thursday, November 13, 2014 3:00 – 3:30 pm EST

To Register for this Webinar, please click here.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in parts of West Africa an international health emergency. As the epidemic has hit closer to home, employers are increasingly asking: What should I do? What can I do? This webinar will discuss:

  • The current status of the Ebola outbreak
  • How transmission is believed to occur
  • The symptoms of Ebola
  • Steps to minimize transmission in the workplace
  • Whether and how to impose travel restrictions
  • Whether and how to impose restrictions on employees returning from the epicenter of the epidemic
  • How to respond to an actual or suspected case of Ebola
  • What to do if employee refuses to work with or near someone they believe may have Ebola
  • Contingency planning, including telecommuting
  • Employer responsibilities under OSHA
  • Employee rights under the ADA and FMLA
  • NLRA implications with regard to changes affecting union employees
  • Special rules for healthcare workers
  • Ebola racism: potential discrimination and harassment against West Africans

As this webinar is free for clients of Duane Morris and guests of Duane Morris Institute, registration will be limited. Please sign up early as we expect this event to sell out.

Nothing in this webinar shall be construed as legal, medical or infection control advice.

Subtle Bias: Micro-Inequities and Micro-Aggressions

This article was originally published for SHRM Blog and can be found here.

I am pleased to include a link to an article I wrote last month for Entrepreneur on subtle bias: How Entrepreneurs Can Spot Subtle Bias

The focus is on what I collectively call “micro-indignities”: micro-inequities and micro-aggressions. Continue reading Subtle Bias: Micro-Inequities and Micro-Aggressions

#Nextchat: Ebola and the Workplace

Please join @weknownext at 3 p.m. ET on October 22 for #Nextchat.  We’ll chat about what employers are doing now regarding #Ebola.

To get the full SHRM Blog on the topic, please click here.

Q1.  What kind of conversations are taking place in your workplace about the Ebola virus?

Q2.  What kind of communications are you planning in your workplace regarding the Ebola virus?

Q3. Are you sharing prevention information regarding Ebola with your employees and how?

Q4. What kind of restrictions are you imposing on work-related travel due to the Ebola virus?

Q5. Do you have a policy in place for those traveling and returning from the epicenter of the Ebola virus?

Q6. Have you or will you be creating a plan or procedure for screening employees for Ebola?

Q7. How do the ADA and FMLA affect employees who have or may have Ebola or wish to care for those who do?

Q8. How do we ensure that we protect our workplaces without violating Title VII or other workplace discrimination laws?

Documentation Dangers

I am pleased to post article I wrote for SHRM’s HRMagazine on some common danger zones in disciplinary documentation. Please see below. Thank you.

Sometimes I hear people say “document, document, document” as if that were the answer to all problems. Were that true, wouldn’t we all just document and spend money on our mission and employees instead of litigation? Continue reading Documentation Dangers