Take employee's temperature and assess symptoms prior to their starting work. If an employee becomes sick during the day, send them home immediately. Test the use of face masks to ensure they do not interfere with workflow. Increase air exchange in the building. Increase the frequency of cleaning commonly touched surfaces.

That’s going to be uncharted territory. Most employers are not going to want to pick the legal fight over requiring it, but they will take the route of bonuses or some type of incentive. There’s precedent in the health care field to require it. We just don’t have any legal precedent for it on a [...]

OSHA (the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration) recommends that if an employee has been potentially exposed in the workplace that they be notified. What does exposed mean? If you’re in a complex with 50 buildings and it’s somebody 17 buildings over, you’re probably not exposed. Most employers are … trying to find out who’s [...]

When an employer tells you you need to come back to work and you don’t feel comfortable working from the office, in general the employer doesn’t need to keep you. (But) California is ahead of the curve in terms of its laws. California labor code says that you have a right to refuse unsafe work, [...]