by deshazonesbitt | Apr 12, 2021 | blog, Guidance
In an alert issued today, the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) described what many employers have been seeing for a few weeks now: a wave of fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits. Bad actors are using personal information stolen from the internet (not from the...
by deshazonesbitt | Apr 2, 2020 | blog, Guidance
April 2, 2020 is the effective date of the Emergency Paid Sick Leave and FMLA expansion provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which Congress passed and the President signed into law on March 18, 2020. The new law temporarily requires employers...
by deshazonesbitt | Mar 20, 2020 | blog, Guidance
On March 19, 2020 the EEOC updated its 2009 guidance on pandemic-related issues under the Americans with Disabilities Act. While reiterating that individual decisions concerning employees with disabilities should be based on objective, factual evidence, the EEOC...