COVID19 and Employment Laws - Few Questions Answered!
Amidst the coronavirus outbreak, the relationship between employers and their employee is heading towards a new territory where both the parties are making their best effort to sort out their rights and responsibilities in the view of the outbreak. In order to keep the virus out their workplaces while minimizing the disruptions in the business, employers are proclaiming things that were unthinkable just weeks ago that include worker quarantines, office-wide remote work and personal travel reporting needs. Meanwhile, the employees are speculating the actions of their bosses towards offering protection from the COVID19 outbreak. Let us have a look at what employment lawyers and other workplace experts have to say regarding this public-health crisis in the workplace below. How are they answering to some of the most common queries from employees! Q1. Can an employer cancel their employee’s vacation time and make them work instead? A - The answer is yes in most of the wor...