Opening the Doors: Return-to-Workplace Considerations During COVID-19: Part One: Navigation the Legal Risk of Return

Opening the Doors: Return-to-Workplace Considerations During COVID-19: Part One: Navigation the Legal Risk of Return

April 16, 2020, Covington Alert

Whether a company is an essential business or is expecting to reopen in the coming weeks, a number of challenges must be addressed in order to provide a safe environment in which employees can work, while at the same time mitigating risk and restoring operations. Generally speaking, employees can be required to come to work, but this general rule must be considered against the backdrop of an unprecedented national health crisis that gives rise to a novel legal landscape.

Covington’s four-part series, the additional three parts of which will be published in the coming days, examines the most challenging issues faced by employers who are planning to reopen or continue productive operations.