Articles Posted in Pennsylvania

Vlog and Blog COMBO! COVID-19 and Thanksgiving. Plus, a new telecommuting mandate in PA

November 24, 2020 | by Eric B. Meyer

Amy and Eric are talking COVID-19 and Thanksgiving on YouTube. Only in 2020…

I had intended to keep the typing to a minimum today by sending you over to The Employer Handbook YouTube Channel, where I posted this video in which my colleague, Amy Epstein Gluck, and I tried to answer the question: “How should businesses handle employee travel for Thanksgiving?”

Then Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf went and signed this new Executive Order yesterday that significantly changes how local employers will do business for the foreseeable future. Continue reading

That time when all the employment lawyers got paid and the litigants got zilch!

November 23, 2020 | by Eric B. Meyer

Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay

Just about the only folks guaranteed to get paid in an employment discrimination case are the lawyers. Continue reading

Heads up, PA employers! The Commonwealth just strengthened its COVID-19 mask and testing rules 😷👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️

November 19, 2020 | by Eric B. Meyer

Governor Tom Wolf from Harrisburg, PA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pennsylvania businesses with employees who report to the office will need to update their workplace policies in light of some new rules effective this week. Continue reading

Free COVID-19 claims and lawsuits webinar? And a slide deck on EEO considerations too? I got you, fam!

October 8, 2020 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Who loves you?

My employer fired me because I use medical marijuana. Can I sue?

October 5, 2020 | by Eric B. Meyer

Image by CMElixirs from Pixabay

Well, that depends. 😉 Continue reading

In Philadelphia, just about everyone is eligible now for COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave

September 22, 2020 | by Eric B. Meyer

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You get emergency paid sick leave! You get emergency paid sick leave! You get emergency paid sick leave! Continue reading

Those COVID-19 stay-at-home and business-closure orders in your state may be unlawful after all

September 15, 2020 | by Eric B. Meyer

Paul Sherlock / CC BY-SA

Yesterday, a Pennsylvania federal judge issued this 66-page blockbuster decision, in which he concluded, among other things, that Governor Wolf violated the United States Constitution with orders closing “non-life-sustaining” businesses otherwise and directing Pennsylvanians to stay at home.

It may not be legal now to fire an at-will employee who misses work with a fever.

September 10, 2020 | by Eric B. Meyer

Chris Potter / CC BY

An employer may find itself in hot water for firing an employee absent with COVID-19 symptoms — even a low-grade fever — regardless of whether s/he is eligible for leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. Continue reading

Businesses insisting on negative COVID-19 tests is, like, so three weeks ago.

August 12, 2020 | by Eric B. Meyer

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Public domain

The other day, I read this story about a local attorney who appeared in court in person — even though she knew that her young son was at home with COVID-19. Her decision so inflamed the judge that he immediately closed the courtroom and had the sheriff’s deputies remove the lawyer from the courthouse.

But then the president judge then took it one step further.

This lawyer can admit when he was wrong. 🤦‍♂️ Just don’t tell anyone, ok? 😉

July 16, 2020 | by Eric B. Meyer

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While I sit here and eat a little crow, you be on the lookout for pigs flying. Continue reading

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