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Daily: April 13 ~ April 17, 2020 | 4:00 — 4:20 p.m. ET • 1:00 — 1:20 p.m. PT

As issues and concerns around COVID-19 continue to mount, employers are compelled to confront the ever-evolving situation as it relates to their workforce and their business. Jackson Lewis remains committed to keeping our clients informed on workplace implications of the ongoing crisis. Two weeks ago we started our Daily Briefing series—a 10 minute update by a Jackson Lewis attorney followed by a live Q&A session.

All participants will be able to submit questions before the briefing through the registration form, as well as during or after the webinar utilizing the webinar tools. For additional resources, including recordings of the most recent Daily Briefings, please check out the Jackson Lewis COVID-19 Resource Page.

Please register for our Daily Briefings by clicking here.

You can also access all of our prior Daily Briefing sessions by clicking here.

Date: Thursday, April 9, 2020 – 4:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m CEST

In connection with the negative economic impact of announcing the epidemic in Poland due to COVID-19 and the restrictions applied, employers are considering reducing costs (including employee costs).

How properly reduce the number of employees in Poland and how do it in accordance with Polish law?

Date: Wednesday, 8 April 2020 – 12 p.m EDT

COVID-19 and its economic fallout continue to confront employers with unprecedented challenges in managing workforce safety issues as well as reducing payroll costs as economic shutdowns take hold. In this webinar, attorneys from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico will discuss and field questions concerning the particular issues raised in employee-protective Latin America jurisdictions, such as:

• To what extent and under what conditions can employers implement temporary layoffs or salary reductions in response to government-imposed shutdowns or COVID-related loss of business?
• Can employers require employees to use statutory leaves during COVID-related shutdowns?
• Are any subsidies or special programs available to assist employees affected by COVID-related restructuring?
• What protections does the law provide employees who must self-quarantine, care for children during school closures, or who decline to work out of concern of being infected in the workplace?
• Can employers require temperature screening or other safety measures at the workplace without employee consent?
• Are redundancies prohibited? To what extent is COVID a valid ground for redundancy under local law?

We invite you to view the final presentation of this webinar by clicking on the icon below:

Date: Monday, Apr 6, 2020 • 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CET

We would like to invite you to the Flichy Grangé Avocats webinar: COVID-19 in France – What do employers need to know (and what should they be doing)?

We invite you to view the final presentation of this webinar by clicking on the icon below:

This webinar will last 1 hour and is free of charge. You can register for the webinar via the specific registration link and feel free to forward the invitation to any of your colleagues.

Topics: Key information to help you make effective decisions in these challenging times overshadowed by the Covid-19 Coronavirus.

The speakers will answer among others the following questions:

• Business continuation: Get an insight on what employers should do to adequately ensure their employees continue working
  • safety rules, health and security matters,
  • staff representation
  • incentives
• Your business had to stop? the various measures the French government took to help
  • Leave of absence
  • Short-time work
  • Business-oriented measures (loans, deferred contributions, etc.)

Speakers:
• Joël Grangé (Partner of Flichy Grangé Avocats)
• Florence Aubonnet (Partner of Flichy Grangé Avocats)
• Florence Bacquet (Partner of Flichy Grangé Avocats)

Please follow Flichy Grangé Avocats on LinkedIn to stay on top of labour and employment law developments.

Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 – 2:00 pm Eastern | 3:00 pm Atlantic | 12:00 pm Mountain | 11:00 am Pacific | 1:00 pm Central

Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP is a proud member of Advocates for Employers of Canada (AEC). AEC is an alliance of management-side labour and employment law practitioners from across Canada. We advocate for clients in every sector of the economy, from large multi-national corporations, mid-size national and local organizations, to entrepreneurs, not-for-profits, and we advise at all levels of government.

As COVID-19 continues to spread, employers are faced with an increasing number of challenges which range from maintaining workplace health and safety, to ensuring ongoing business viability. Join us for an informative online session with AEC lawyers from each jurisdiction across the country.

In this session we will review:

• Government and employment standards initiatives in each Canadian jurisdiction
• Tips and best practices for maintaining workplace health and safety – social distancing initiatives, temperature checks, schedule changes, etc.
• Use of salary reductions, leaves, temporary layoffs, and wage subsidies to deal with closures and revenue challenges
• Available alternatives – Work Share Program, Supplemental Employment Benefit Program, etc.

Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.

In relation to the negative economic impact of the announcement of the epidemic state in Poland and the restrictions applied, a package of new legal regulations for entrepreneurs, the so-called ‘Anti-crisis Shield’, will be introduced.

The solutions included in the package concern, among others:
• economic stoppages (i.e. periods when work is not expected from employees),
• short-time work solutions (i.e. extraordinary measures allowing for the reduction of working hours),
• co-financing of employee remunerations by the State.

We would like to discuss new regulations during an online meeting, taking into account the employer’s perspective. We invite you to participate in a free online meeting which will be conducted in English.

If you want to participate, please register via rejestracja@sobczyk.com.pl

Date: Monday, 23 March 2020 – 5 p.m Central European Time / noon Eastern Time

Coronavirus: your essential workforce update. Key information to help you make effective decisions in these challenging times.

Since our last webinar on this topic at the beginning of March, the situation especially in Europe has taken a dramatic turn. Questions that were imminent at the beginning of March are no longer relevant in practice. Employers are now being faced with the need to make difficult business decisions at extremely short notice. We would like to give you some guidance for key European jurisdictions.

We invite you to download the “Stay Up To Date: Resources from your presenters regarding COVID-19” or view the final presentation of this webinar by clicking on the icon below:

The webinar featured attorneys from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and The Netherlands with deep knowledge and experience regarding the consequences of the Coronavirus in the workforce.

The speakers answered among others the following questions:

Date: Monday, 2 March 2020
• 9 a.m CET / 5 p.m Japan Standard Time / 4 p.m China Time
• 6 p.m CET / 9 a.m Pacific Standard Time / noon Eastern Time

Employers are confronted with numerous legal issues as they address Coronavirus travel restrictions and consider health and safety measures to protect their workforce. In this webinar we will address legal risks and best practices relating to the Coronavirus, from the perspectives of employment law, health and safety, data privacy, and discrimination/human rights in the US, Europe and China.

We invite you to view the final presentation of this webinar by clicking on the icon below: