Labor/Employment
May 27, 2020
8 COVID-19-related myths employers might have heard
As employers today navigate complex issues that they had never imagined, there are more than a few myths circulating about the impact of COVID-19 on wage and hour laws that are worth mentioning — and worth debunking.
Michael Kun
Member
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Let me be the millionth person to say that we are living in unprecedented times. Unless you count the Spanish Flu, of course, which exceedingly few of us are likely to have dealt with as that occurred more than a century ago. You can read all about it in the history books if you're so inclined. And few if any of the wage and hour laws employers deal with today were in place back then. The Fair Labor Standards Act was enacted in 1938, two decades after the Spanish Flu ...
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