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Labor/Employment,
Civil Litigation

Jun. 3, 2020

How employers can prepare for expected waves of coronavirus-related litigation

During the pandemic, California has experienced a perfect storm that might unleash waves of employment litigation.

Bonnie A. Glatzer

Partner
Nixon Peabody LLP

Phone: (415) 984-8333

Email: bglatzer@nixonpeabody.com

Boston Univ SOL; Boston MA

Bonnie is a partner in the firm's Labor and Employment Group.

Hillary Baca

Associate
Nixon Peabody LLP

Email: hbaca@nixonpeabody.com

Hillary is an associate in the firm's Labor and Employment Group.

Jade Butman

Associate
Nixon Peabody LLP

Email: jbutman@nixonpeabody.com

Jade is an associate in the firm's Labor and Employment Group.

The COVID-19 pandemic upended the California workplace with little warning. To comply with shelter-in-place orders, employers were forced to make difficult choices under severe economic pressure and without the luxury of time to perform thorough legal analyses. Then, Congress handed employers new compliance obligations when it passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). Meanwhile, the crisis carried no reprieve from California's myriad of complex emplo...

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