COVID-19, Testing, and Temperatures: How to Make Things Safer as Employees Return to Work

In response to COVID-19, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has updated and/or provided guidance related to the current employment concerns specific to the pandemic.  The guidance offers helpful insights into how the agencies are balancing changes to normalcy, along with legal requirements posed by a variety of employment laws. 

From testing, taking temperature and other requirements/regulations, employers are more than ever confused with safely bringing employees back to work without violating federal, state, and local guidelines. Moreover, employees are not totally confident in returning back to work.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) new workplace guidance has been updated and should be part of all Employer's COVID-19 Compliance Resources. There should be a collaboration of all reliable resources the EEOC, OSHA, Center for Disease Control and Protection (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO) and state-specific health organizations to prepare safely for the new normal in the workplace.

Employers need to follow guidelines from the EEOC, OSHA, CDC, WHO as well as state-specific regulations.

Learn how to safely bring employees, consumers, and other stakeholders safely back to their business.

Areas Covered

• How to communicate the Pandemic guidelines to employees
• Why is there such confusion about testing?
• Should Employers test employee’s or refer them for testing?
• What happens when employees do not feel confident about returning to work?
• What medical guidelines have to be followed when Employers take employee’s temperature?
• Are Employers able to send employees home if they have symptoms?
• What sanitation guidelines should be followed to safely return employees?
• How can Employers handle confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases
• Providing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) based on your industry

Learning Objectives

• Learn How Employers Treat Employees During the COVID-19 and Not Violate Discriminatory Practices
• When did the EEOC and ADA determine that COVID-19 is a Pandemic?
• What changes are there based on the determination of the pandemic?
• What other regulations are changing due to COVID-19 Pandemic?
• Taking temperature of employees, consumers, subcontractors and stakeholders legally
• What medical questions can be asked of employees and what questions can’t be asked?
• Learn what the different types of testing exists, and which should be used at which time?
• What type of testing guidelines should employers follow when it comes to testing?
• Learn how the Federal resources impact the decisions that Employers make as they decide how to open their business
• Learn what Employers should look to when making decisions to recall employees without violating discrimination regulations

Who Should Attend

• All Employers
• Business Owners
• Company Leadership
• Compliance professionals
• Payroll Administrators
• HR Professionals
• Compliance Professionals
• Managers/Supervisors
• Employers in all industries
• Small Business Owners
• All Employers
• Large Business Owners
• Company Leadership
• HR professionals

Speaker(s)

Margie Faulk

Margie Faulk, PHR, SHRM-CP is a senior level human resources professional with over 14 years of HR management and compliance experience. A former Compliance Officer for Federal Defense Contracting Industry, Margie has worked as an HR and Compliance advisor for major corporations and small businesses in the small, large, private, public and Non-profit sectors. Margie is bilingual (Spanish) fluent and Bi-cultural.

Margie’s focus is on multi-state, national, state and local workplace compliance. Additionally, Margie is working on International compliance initiatives globally which includes workplace compliance in other countries like the UK, Canada, France, Brazil, China, Africa, Mexico and India, just to name a few.

Margie has created and presented seminars/webinars for many compliance institutes. These national training providers, offer compliance training to professionals, business owners and companies interested in having their company compliant with workplace and industry regulations.

Margie holds professional human resources certification (PHR) from the HR Certification Institution (HRCI) and SHRM-CP certification from Society for Human Resources Management. Margie has completed the Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional training and is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE).

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