Blogs

Michael Karst at Kastner Westman & Wilkins

OH: What your workplace can do right now to prepare for COVID-19

March 9th, 2020

Name three things you can do right now to prepare for COVID-19. Michael Karst has four, so just go ahead and use his list.

Victoria Harker at Chamber Business News

AZ Prepared for COVID-19

March 3rd, 2020

“I want to assure everyone that the public health care system in Arizona is well prepared to respond to the spread of COVID-19.” Cara Christ, the director of the state’s Department of Health Services Victoria Harker...

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Wesley Covert and Chad DeGroot at Laner Muchin

SECURE Act and retirement plans - what really changed?

February 27th, 2020

The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (SECURE Act) does not in fact secure your or your employees' retirement. What it does do is make a lot of changes, some of them required, some...

Alexander Castelli at Shawe Rosenthal

NJ: Weed, opioids, workers' comp – who pays?

February 24th, 2020

Federal crime: to manufacture, posses or distribute marijuana. New Jersey's Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical [Marijuana] Cannabis Act: ". . . the purpose of this act is to protect from arrest, prosecution, property forfeiture, and criminal...

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Peter Gillespie at Laner Muchin

IL Now required: Illinois sexual harassment prevention training

February 20th, 2020

Peter Gillespie offers a timely reminder that under last year’s amendments to the Illinois Human Rights Act that were contained in the 2019 Workplace Transparency Act, Illinois employers are required to provide sexual harassment prevention...

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