Overview
Target Audience: Public Agency HR and Risk Professionals, Administrators and Department Heads
This webcast will focus on what public entities and school districts must know about the Coronavirus outbreak, including strategies to prepare for workplace disruption, illness and quarantines, leaves, accommodations and compliance with federal and state regulations and emergency declarations. We will help participants make sense of the quickly changing – and, often, conflicting – reports and guidelines from the CDC, OSHA, the California Department of Industrial Relations, and other regulatory agencies. We will help you identify your own entity’s unique concerns for employees, the public, students and families as we all grapple with foreseeable and potential developments. We will provide tools for preparation with proactive policies and strategies. We currently anticipate the following major topics:
- How to separate myths from misconceptions and fear from fact: and why it’s critical for risk management.
- Explanation, in plain, non-alarmist, and objective terms, of the range of issues for employers, public health and safety departments, school districts, and social services agencies from the COVID-19 outbreak and potential pandemic.
- Making sense of conflicting or changing guidelines, recommendations, travel advisories and emergency declarations.
- Considerations for reducing the spread of illness in the workplace – how to implement proactive engineering, security, and other controls, as well as facility and school closures.
- How to handle employee absenteeism for those who are ill, or required to self-quarantine for up to 14 days.
- Imposing travel restrictions on business and personal travel – what is lawful and constitutional for public employees.
- Wage and hour issues – legal standards, MOU and policy issues; and proactive plans for employees who are quarantined and cannot report for duty or work remotely.
- How to enact and enforce effective telework policies, for both temporary and longer-term options, as they may become necessary.
- What we know about statutory leaves of absence: job and benefit protection rights under varying foreseeable scenarios.
- Will there be an impact on industrial injuries from exposures in the workplace: coping with the foreseeable and the speculative.
- Return to work issues after an employee returns from illness or quarantine: options for fitness for duty statements, mandated testing, and fitness for duty statements.
- Sidestepping traps for the unwary for discrimination, harassment or retaliation based on national origin, ties to family in impacted geographic areas, employees who express concerns about exposures from internal or external sources, and exercise of protected leave and accommodation rights.
As other issues emerge, we will add them to the content to bring you the most up to date, relevant and customized information available.
Need More Info or Help?
We hope you can join us. Feel free to contact Ian Chadwick for more details.
Phone:
Email: ichadwick@csac-eia.org