Labor & Employment Law

By Anita Byer, Setnor Byer Insurance & Risk The case for employment practices liability insurance (EPLI) has never been stronger. Businesses are operating in a rapidly changing environment that keeps producing unprecedented, previously unimaginable challenges. COVID-19, #MeToo, gig workers, remote workers, medical marijuana, CDC guidance, quarantines,...

By Anita Byer, Setnor Byer Insurance & Risk Many employers are struggling with how to deal with the shrinking, yet substantial number of employees who are not vaccinated for COVID-19. As infection rates increase, employers are once again forced to consider actions to maintain operations while...

Did you know that OSHA is specifically targeting restaurants, supermarkets and other businesses for COVID-related inspections? The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently launched a National Emphasis Program (NEP) to significantly reduce the number of workplace exposures to COVID-19. To accomplish this goal, OSHA will...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its enforcement and litigation data for fiscal year 2020. COVID-19, it seems, did not impair the EEOC’s ability to enforce the nation’s equal employment opportunity laws. In 2020, the EEOC: received 67,448 charges of workplace discrimination;responded to more than 470,000...

Setnor Byer Insurance & Risk On December 27, 2020, the second major coronavirus stimulus package was signed into law. The COVID-Related Tax Relief Act of 2020 includes a number of relief measures to address the health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, what about...

Setnor Byer Insurance & Risk The COVID-19 vaccines provide a glimmer of hope as new cases surge nationwide. It also raises some interesting questions for employers. How, for example, will the vaccine’s increasing availability be viewed in the context of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?...