Author Archive for: "Rachel D. Felton"

Last Friday, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued updated Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in the Workplace. In the Guidance, OSHA adopted [...]

Last week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued updated COVID-19 guidance for all industries outside of the healthcare sector. The new guidance differentiates between [...]

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has updated its December 16th guidance regarding COVID-19 vaccinations. The EEOC’s new guidance seeks to clarify and reiterate some of the [...]

For the last nine months, most employers with fewer than 500 employees have been required to provide employees with emergency paid sick leave and emergency family and medical leave under the [...]

The City of Pittsburgh now requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide COVID-19 related paid sick leave to certain employees who work within the City of Pittsburgh. Paid sick leave [...]

With the fall surge upon us, state and local governments are issuing new orders to curb the rising number of COVID-19 cases. The Secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Health recently issued [...]

President Trump has signed emergency legislation that expands the Family and Medical Leave Act to cover coronavirus related leave and provides for emergency paid sick leave. The legislation, [...]

Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry announced that employees who are out of work due to COVID-19 may be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits under the [...]

It is important for all companies to have a well-written and up-to-date employee handbook. Employee handbooks inform employees of workplace policies, set expectations between employees and the [...]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently ruled that the fluctuating workweek method of calculating overtime pay violates the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act (PMWA). While the use of the fluctuating [...]