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Working from Home Best Practice Tips to Maintain Productivity During COVID-19
For those of you who have been ordered to stay home from work, and are trying to continue working from home, I thought it might be helpfu...
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Steven R. Gersz
- Mar 31, 2020
- 2 min
Monroe County Offering Aid to Assist Small Businesses Impacted by COVID-19
Last week, we wrote about state and federal aid opportunities for small businesses whose operations have been disrupted by the COVID-19 p...
Alina Nadir
- Mar 31, 2020
- 3 min
Further Guidance Issued for Employers Regarding the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
This post is a further update to our earlier post: Guidance Issued for Employer Relief Offered by the Families First Coronavirus Response...
Steven R. Gersz
- Mar 30, 2020
- 3 min
New York Issues Updated Guidance on Essential Businesses
In our earlier post: Gov. Cuomo Requires Non-Essential Businesses to Reduce In-Person Workforce by 100% we provided the list of businesse...
Jillian K. Farrar
- Mar 27, 2020
- 2 min
The Cares Act Provides Billions for Health Care & Small Businesses
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or “CARES Act” passed the House of Representatives today and President Trump has i...
Steven R. Gersz
- Mar 27, 2020
- 2 min
Governor Cuomo Takes Action to Expand the Pool of Health Care Practitioners Amid COVID-19 Crisis
Through the issuance of two Executive Orders by New York State Governor Cuomo occasioned by the COVID-19 crisis, the Governor has taken a...
Jillian K. Farrar
- Mar 27, 2020
- 3 min
Actions Businesses Can Take Now to Reduce Future Covid-19 Force Majeure Litigation
Last week Governor Cuomo instituted New York State on P.A.U.S.E. (Policies Assure Uniform Safety for Everyone), ordering 100% of the non-...
Margaret E. Somerset
- Mar 25, 2020
- 2 min
Malpractice Immunity for Medical Professionals Treating Patients During COVID-19
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/no-2021-continuing-temporary-suspension-and-modification-laws-relating-disaster-emerge...
Sarah F. Bothma
- Mar 25, 2020
- 4 min
Federal and State Actions Impacting Small Businesses
In response to the economic injury that small businesses (and individuals) have experienced and continue to experience as a result of the...
Jennifer A. Shoemaker
- Mar 25, 2020
- 19 min
Guidance Issued for Employer Relief Offered by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
In addition to Jennifer Shoemaker, this post was authored with input from Paul Keneally and Alina Nadir. Yesterday, the US Department of ...
Jessie Gregorio
- Mar 23, 2020
- 2 min
New York Governor Cuomo Issues Executive Order Extending Statute of Limitations
On March 20, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his 10-Point Policy that Assures Uniform Safety for Everyone (PAUSE). The di...
Thomas F. Knab
- Mar 23, 2020
- 2 min
Be Proactive to Protect Your Contract Rights
In response to the COVID-19 virus, New York State has, as of March 22, 2020, stayed almost all pending NYS civil court proceedings and ba...
Joshua B. Beisker
- Mar 20, 2020
- 2 min
Estate Planning During the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
The Coronavirus and the resulting social distancing and self-quarantining it has caused have forced most New Yorker's to quickly reevalua...
Jennifer A. Shoemaker
- Mar 19, 2020
- 3 min
Gov. Cuomo Requires Non-Essential Businesses to Reduce In-Person Workforce by 100%
As we’ve seen over the past week, many local governments are enacting social distancing measures in an attempt to slow the spread of the ...
Alina Nadir
- Mar 19, 2020
- 7 min
UPDATED: COVID-19 Related Paid Sick & Family Leave Signed into Federal & NYS Law
New York State Leave Law New York has enacted a Paid Sick Leave law guaranteeing job protection and providing paid sick leave to employee...
Sarah F. Bothma
- Mar 18, 2020
- 2 min
COVID-19 Relief for High Deductible Health Plans
The IRS announced that high deductible health plans (“HDHPs”) with health savings accounts may be used to pay for COVID-19 testing* and t...
Jillian K. Farrar
- Mar 16, 2020
- 3 min
COVID-19 Response: Feds to Require Employers Provide Paid Sick Leave & Family Medical Leave
In the early hours of Saturday morning the House of Representatives passed an emergency spending bill supported by President Trump addres...
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