The webinar will cover topics of interest to employers during the coronavirus pandemic, including:

• Guidelines on handling employees who have confirmed or suspected COVID-19
• Employee furloughs
• Federal Emergency Paid Sick Leave (under the Families First Coronavirus Recovery Act - “FFCRA”)
• Extension of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act under the FFCRA to provide paid leave to employees with children at home due to school/daycare closures
• Securing tax credits for the federal Paid Sick Leave and Extended FMLA leave under the FFCRA
• The “Small Business Exception” under the FFCRA for Emergency Paid Sick Leave and Extended FMLA benefits
• Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (workers who are self-employed, independent contractors, newly employed, etc.)
• Emergency Increase in Unemployment Compensation Benefits ($600 per week federal supplement in addition to state unemployment benefits)
• Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (13 week extension of unemployment benefits)
• Short-Time Compensation Payments (Workshare programs)
• Employee Retention tax credits
• Extension of due dates for payment of federal payroll taxes
  
  Presenter
  Marianne Tolomeo, a partner in Connell Foley’s Labor and Employment Group, practices primarily in the areas of employment law and commercial litigation. For more than two decades, Marianne has represented clients ranging from large corporations to small businesses on a full range of employment law issues, including: leaves of absence; wage and hour regulations; the proper classification of workers (employees vs. independent contractors); state and federal audits; reasonable accommodation; workplace harassment; employee discipline and termination; internal investigations; and employment contracts, restrictive covenants, confidentiality agreements and separation agreements. As a litigator, she has successfully handled claims alleging wrongful termination, workplace harassment, disability discrimination, whistleblower liability and retaliatory discharge in state and federal courts and agencies.  Marianne regularly presents seminars to business groups and HR professionals on a variety of employment topics, including Compliance with Wage and Hour Regulations, Managing Leaves of Absence, Equal Pay, Reasonable Accommodation, and Joint Employer liability.