Preparation is the Best Medicine: Pandemic Planning and HR Law

COVID-19 changed the world. With public health requirements for physical distancing, an abrupt economic slowdown, and many organizations required to close or severely reduce their operations, the employment landscape has changed immeasurably. Working from home became not the exception but the norm, occupational health and safety took on new and pressing urgency, and businesses explored large-scale layoffs and layoff alternatives en masse, bringing employers into what was and still is unchartered legal territory. But were you and your business prepared? More importantly, can you be better prepared in the future?