2020 Webinar: September 3 - Answers to COVID Questions Moving Forward

Virtual Conference Series

Answers to COVID Questions Moving Forward

Please join the Joliet Chamber and Attorney Scott Cruz for a free, interactive virtual conference to discuss issues facing employers today and moving forward during the COVID pandemic.

Topics to be covered include but not limited to: 

• Personal travel policies and when can you prohibit personal travel.
• Paid leave under FFCRA when parents do not feel comfortable sending their child to school for in-person learning, or the school is offering in-person and remote learning.
• Paid leave under FFCRA when parents claim to not have childcare options, for personal reasons, their child has been wait-listed at a daycare, etc.
• Should employers take employees' temperatures or require they sign a daily COVID questionnaire each day before they come to work?
• Should employers require employees/visitors to sign a COVID release, and how valid are these releases?
• Accommodating employees who claim they cannot wear a mask based on a pre-existing medical condition.  Are there FMLA considerations?
• Reclassifying exempt employees to non-exempt if there is not enough work to justify paying a full week's salary
• Reducing exempt employee's salary for similar reasons of lack of work.
• Are your outside sales employees still "outside sales employees" if no one is taking in-person meetings?
• Do employers have a duty to compensate non-exempt employees for time spent conducting temperature checks?
• What's the National Labor Relations been up to?  Let's find out.
• CDC's new Return to Work Guidance following a positive COVID test.
• Can we still require employees to provide a negative COVID test following quarantine?  CDC says you shouldn't, but what is the best practice?