We can help! My law partners Paul Economon and Jess Bahs and I penned this summary of the basic provisions of Title I of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) under the CARES Act. I bequeath it to you here, with a little extra from me.
NEW LOAN PROGRAM
CARES creates a new Business Loan Program category for […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
We are all engaged in the new practice of social distancing in order to try to stem the tide of COVID-19 incidence. It’s not easy, that’s for sure.
(Here in my house, I am worried that my youngest child, a 15 year-old boy, may be killed outright by his older sisters—they would like […]
I send you into this weekend with a guest post by Marty Robins, one of our amazing Privacy Group partners in Illinois. An expert in all things data privacy, Marty and I talked this week (and last) about the effect of the Coronavirus on data privacy issues.
With the current focus on preventing the spread of […]
Late last night, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act was signed into law. Honestly, I could write a five-page description of everything that this law provides and does not provide, but that’s not how I roll, and I think you want to read about this in plain English.
So, here we go, in bullet point format […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
Yesterday, two very different employers asked me how the heck they pay employees who are not working. What do they do? Their businesses may suffer considerable losses, or they fear losing their workforce if they do not pay their employees. What are employers’ obligations?
Exempt or Nonexempt, That Is The First Question
This is […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
On March 5, 2020, in a FisherBroyles client alert, I provided some answers to several pressing general questions that employers might have about managing their workforce during this turbulent time. If you missed the alert, you can read it here. If we know one thing about this Coronavirus or COVID-19, we know […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
Employers having trouble enforcing their noncompetes may have a better chance in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit—at least in Maryland—by adopting a more novel approach: condition the noncompete on the receipt of incentive payments pursuant to a clear incentive plan with defined goals, instead of relying on […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is making some lists and checking them twice, that’s for sure.
Piggybacking on my law partner Rich Cohen’s post about the annual breakdown of the 2019 enforcement and litigation data compiled by the EEOC, the EEOC just promulgated another report—its Annual Performance Report (APR).
In the APR, the EEOC […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
As of January 2020, 35 U.S. states and more than 150 cities and counties have passed “ban the box” laws, according to the National Employment Law Project (NELP).
What is “ban the box”? Which box? Where?
You know, those little boxes on job applications. The ones that require an employee to “check” if they have […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
Yes, I do love that scene in Jerry Maguire where Tom Cruise is kind of losing his mind but Cuba Gooding, Jr. helps him see the humor in their situation.
But in this case, it’s true. Imagine this very common scenario:
Sam supervisor walks into Hal HR’s office, and says “We need to terminate Edgar […]