Since March, we have written a lot about how the pandemic and coronavirus have lead to changes in the way businesses handle recruiting, downsizing and employee and labor relations. We have also discussed how outplacement services help displaced workers, virtually…

At the start of May of this year, 36 paraprofessionals in the Bennington School District in Vermont were let go as part of a reduction in force in response to the financial difficulties brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. In…

The current coronavirus pandemic has brought labor relations to the spotlight in some unexpected ways. On April 28, 2020, President Donald Trump signed an executive order using the Defense Production Act that requires meat-processing plants to remain open during the…

Just going by the headlines, it can feel as if business as usual, has come to a grinding halt everywhere as the world braces to weather the COVID-19 pandemic. It was just announced that 10 million Americans  have filed for…

March 15, 2020: the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) declared a limited HIPAA Privacy Rule waiver in response to the continuing battle to contain and reduce the spread of COVID-19, as a measure to help stave off the spread of…

Regardless of whether the COVID-19 is officially labeled a global pandemic or not, it has been big enough news to rock the stock market in recent days and cause upheaval in many places of work all over the world. You…