"California Reopening: Returning to the Workplace & Employment-Related Issues," Davis Wright Tremaine Webinar

This program was a multi-speaker discussion on some of the upcoming challenges employers face as they transition their work forces back into California workplaces.

Topics included:

• How to manage health screenings and address privacy concerns.
• Re-hiring laid off employees and returning furloughed employees.
• Returning and remote worker wage and hour issues.
• Status of AB 5 and other classification issues related to reopening the workplace.
• Navigating city, county, state, and department of public health orders during reopening.
• Approaches to lawfully address situations such as requests for "hazard pay", safety concerns, and other potentially concerted activity, and employees who refuse to return to work.
• Frameworks to comply with COVID-19 laws and guidance that are:
  • Hyper-localized (state, county, city, public health departments issue shutdown orders and workplace guidance)
  • Heavily-regulated (every agency has something)
  • Industry-specific (agencies have targeted guidance to industries)
  • Frequently-updated (the guidance websites change daily/weekly)

We also spent a portion of this webinar addressing the questions submitted during registration and during the live webinar.

Speakers:

• Jeff Bosley
• Julie Capell
• Aaron Colby
• Laura Heckathorn
• Judy Keyes
• Tyler Maffia
• Arielle Spinner

View the slides from this webinar.
(On-demand versions are not eligible for CLE credit.)