B&I Publishes Employment Law Update on Testing, Quarantine, and Return to Work Guidance

/ 0 Comments

B&I has published an employment law update to its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. The new update summarizes revised, symptoms-based return to work guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Maine guidance on testing and travel restrictions.

Read More
separator

B&I Publishes Employment Law Update on Maine Executive Order on Face Coverings

/ 0 Comments

B&I has published an employment law update to its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. The new update summarizes Governor Janet Mill’s Executive Order #2, which requires certain Maine businesses to “implement measures requiring customers to wear face coverings.”

Read More
separator

B&I Publishes Employment Law Update on MDOL Benefits Extension

/ 0 Comments

B&I has published an employment law update to its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. The new update addresses the Maine Department of Labor’s announcement that 13 additional weeks of unemployment benefits will be made available to qualifying Mainers.

Read More
separator

B&I Publishes Two Employment Law Updates on EEOC Guidance

/ 0 Comments

B&I has added two employment law updates to its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. These updates provide information on new guidance issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. First, the EEOC has updated its original guidance on COVID-19 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Second, the Commission has issued new guidance on employers’ ability to include...

Read More
separator

B&I Publishes Employment Law Update on the “Keep Maine Healthy” Plan

/ 0 Comments

B&I has added an employment law update to its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. This update describes the changes to travel restrictions and quarantine requirements outlined in Governor Janet Mill’s “Keep Maine Healthy” plan.

Read More
separator

B&I Publishes Employment Law Update on Maine DOL WorkShare Program

/ 0 Comments

B&I has added an employment law update to its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. This update discusses the Maine Department of Labor’s WorkShare program, which enables employers to reduce employees’ weekly hours while employees collect unemployment benefits to supplement their wages.

Read More
separator

B&I Publishes Employment Law Updates on Cloth Coverings, Reopening

/ 0 Comments

B&I has added two employment law updates to its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. The first offers an overview of federal and state guidance on cloth face covering requirements in Maine. The second responds to employer questions arising out of a webinar on “The Realities of Re-opening,” hosted by B&I and Career Management Associates, and should...

Read More
separator

B&I Publishes Legal Update on Gov. Mills’ Exec. Order #55

/ 0 Comments

B&I has added a new employment law update to its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. This update summarizes the most important information for employers from Maine Governor Janet Mills’ Executive Order #55. It includes information about topics such as remote work, commuting, large gatherings, masks, signage, and high risk individuals.

Read More
separator

B&I Publishes Legal Update on Dealing with Unemployment Fraud

/ 0 Comments

On June 1, 2020, B&I added a new employment law update to its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. This update provides guidance for employers who believe that an employee’s personal information has been compromised and possibly used to obtain unemployment compensation fraudulently.

Read More
separator

B&I Publishes Employment Law Updates on Temperature Checks, OSHA Record-keeping

/ 0 Comments

This week, B&I added two employment law updates to its COVID-19 Legal Resource Library. In the first, Peter Lowe and Hannah Wurgaft discuss whether employers must compensate employees for time spent on COVID-19-related temperature checks. In the second, B&I’s employment law team review OSHA’s revised COVID-19 record-keeping requirements.

Read More
separator